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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Main Author: Krefft, Vanda (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Prologue: Manhattan, mid-1950s -- April 4, 1909, Cranston, Rhode Island -- Catherine/Katharine -- A new idea in education -- "Expect great things!" -- Where do all the girls come from? -- "Give to courage a smiling face" -- The Tiffany's of secretarial schools -- "What a job you've done!" -- What are we in for now? -- "Yes, we fight" -- Civilians -- Wonder Woman -- "Heavens to Elizabeth, girls" -- "Greatest show on Earth" -- Life at the top -- It's showtime! -- The writers -- The game changers -- Setting sun -- The end. 
600 1 0 |a Gibbs, Katharine,  |d 1863-1934. 
650 0 |a Secretaries  |x Training of  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Vocational education  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Women white collar workers  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a For-profit universities and colleges  |z United States  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Women college administrators  |z United States  |v Biography. 
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