Expect Great Things! - How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace

"A social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in the wider world"--

About the author

Vanda Krefft has written about women’s issues and popular culture for leading national magazines, including Elle,Redbook, Woman’s Day, and Woman’s World, as well as newspapers worldwide through syndication. She is the author of The Man Who Made the Movies, the first in-depth biography of Twentieth Century Fox founder William Fox.
 

Summary

Mad Men meets Code Girls in this fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which trained women for executive secretary jobs but surreptitiously instilled the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary to claim equality, power, and authority in the wider world from the 1910s through the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Vanda Krefft
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9781643753171
• ISBN: 978-1-64375-317-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls