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Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- A Life Beyond "Cheaper by the Dozen"

Lancaster, Jane

Paperback

Biographies GeneralWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1555536522
ISBN13: 9781555536527
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: May 31 2006
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.66 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the working mom who endures the antics of not only twelve children but also an engineer husband eager to experiment with the principles of efficiency -- especially on his own household.

What readers today might not know is that Lillian Gilbreth was herself a high-profile engineer, and the only woman to win the coveted Hoover Medal for engineers. She traveled the world, served as an advisor on women's issues to five U.S. presidents, and mingled with the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Her husband, Frank Gilbreth, died after twenty years of marriage, leaving her to raise their eleven surviving children, all under the age of nineteen. She continued her career and put each child through college. Retiring at the age of ninety, Lillian Gilbreth was the working mother who did it all.

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