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

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

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

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Gilbreth tried to teach people to save time for joy, but not everyone wants to hurry a pie.

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Born in Oakland in 1878, she graduated from the University of California in 1900 and married Frank Gilbreth four years later.

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

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Taylor had studied fatigue, too, but Gilbreth had a different kind of knowledge of what it meant to be at the limits of physical endurance.

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He sometimes sent Frank Gilbreth to deliver lectures in his place.

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But many clients, after discovering that the president of Gilbreth, Inc.

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On the stand, Gilbreth, a burly former bricklayer and consummate showman, grabbed a stack of law books, pretended they were bricks, and built a wall, explaining how to eliminate wasted motion.

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In that effort, Gilbreth seems an unlikely figure.

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Gilbreth defended her dissertation in June, 1915.

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