After graduating from East Lansing High School in East Lansing, Michigan in 1973, Strassmann completed her AB in Economics at Princeton University in 1977, her MA from Harvard University in Economics from in 1982 and her PhD from Harvard in 1983.[1]
In 2011 she co-authored Feminist economics: feminism, economics, and well-being a "major three-volume research collection that demonstrates the breadth and significance of feminist scholarship in economics."[6]