Expect great things!
how the Katharine Gibbs School revolutionized the American workplace for women
Expect great things!
how the Katharine Gibbs School revolutionized the American workplace for women
Book - 2025
"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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New York, NY :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2025.
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| 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. | |
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