Expect great things! how the Katharine Gibbs School revolutionized the American workplace for women
"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"--
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 308 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781643753171 |
| Author Notes: | 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. |
