Home economics and business management have Lillian Gilbreth in common, and a lot more besides.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

Lillian Gilbreth died, of a stroke, in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1972, at the age of ninety-three.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

In 1935, Lillian Gilbreth, who did not wash dishes, accepted a professorship at Purdue.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast

Lillian Gilbreth was pregnant with her fifth child when she attended that meeting with Brandeis in New York, in October of 1910.

NEWYORKER: Not So Fast