Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Gilbreth in 1921
Born	Lillie Evelyn Moller^[1] (1878-05-24)May 24, 1878 Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	January 2, 1972(1972-01-02) (aged 93) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley Brown University
Occupation(s)	Industrial psychologist Ergonomics expert Management consultant Professor
Known for	Seminal contributions to human factors engineering and ergonomics; Therblig
Spouse	Frank Bunker Gilbreth (m. 1904; died 1924)
Children	12, including Ernestine, Frank Jr., and Robert
Relatives	Frederick Delger (maternal grandfather)
Awards	National Academy of Engineering (elected 1965) Hoover Medal (1966)

Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth (née Moller; May 24, 1878 – January 2, 1972) was an American psychologist, industrial engineer, consultant, and educator who was an early pioneer in applying psychology to time-and-motion studies. She was described in the 1940s as "a genius in the art of living."^[2]

Gilbreth, one of the first female engineers to earn a Ph.D., is considered to be the first industrial/organizational psychologist.^[1] She and her husband, Frank Bunker Gilbreth, were efficiency experts who contributed to the study of industrial engineering, especially in the areas of motion study and human factors.

Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) and Belles on Their Toes (1950), written by two of their children (Ernestine and Frank Jr.) tell the story of their family life and describe how time-and-motion studies were applied to the organization and daily activities of their large family.^[3] Both books were later made into feature films.^[3]

Early life and education

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Lillie Evelyn Moller was born in Oakland, California, on May 24, 1878,^[1] to Annie (née Delger) and William Moller, a builder's supply merchant. She was their second child and the eldest of the family's nine surviving children.^[4] Their first child, Anna Adelaide, had died at age four months.^[5] Her maternal grandfather Frederick Delger was a German immigrant who became the richest man in Oakland.

Educated at home until the age of nine, Moller began formal schooling in the first grade at a public elementary school and was rapidly promoted through the grade levels.^[6] She was elected vice president of her senior class at Oakland High School and graduated with exemplary grades in May 1896.^[7]

Although Moller wanted to go to college, her father was opposed to such education for his daughters. Because of this, she did not take all the required college preparatory courses in high school. She did persuade her father to let her try college for a year and was admitted to the University of California on the condition that she take the missing Latin course from high school in her first semester at university. In August 1896, Moller was one of 300 entering students. The University of California at that time was housed in four buildings in the hills above the little town of Berkeley. It charged no tuition for California residents and was underfunded. Classes were large and many were held in tents. There were no dormitories; men lived in nearby boarding houses and women commuted from home.^[8]

Moller did well enough during her first year, coming in near the top of her class, that her father agreed to allow her to continue her education. She commuted from home on the streetcar, and in the evenings helped her mother with the household and her siblings with their homework. She majored in English, also studying philosophy and psychology, and had enough education courses to earn a teaching certificate. She also won a prize for poetry and acted in student plays.^[1] In the spring of her senior year the new university president, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, asked her to be one of the student speakers at the commencement ceremonies. On May 16, 1900, she graduated from the university and became the first woman to speak at a University of California commencement. The title of her speech was "Life: A Means or an End".^[9]^[10]

Moller had begun to think of a professional career rather than staying at home after graduation. She now wished to be called Lillian because she felt it was a more dignified name for a university graduate, and she left home to enroll in graduate school at Columbia University in New York City. Her literature professor Charles Gayley had suggested she study there with Brander Matthews. Graduate enrollment at Columbia was almost half women at the time, but Matthews would not allow them in his classes. Instead, she studied literature with George Edward Woodberry.^[11] A lasting influence was her study with the psychologist Edward Thorndike, newly appointed at Columbia. Though she became ill with pleurisy and was brought home by her father, she continued to refer to him in her later work.^[12] Back in California, she returned to the University of California in August 1901 to work toward a master's degree in literature. Under the supervision of Gayley, she wrote a thesis on Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair, and received her master's degree in the spring of 1902.^[13]^[11]

Moller began studies for a PhD at the University of California, but took time off to travel through Europe in the spring of 1903. Following her marriage to Frank Bunker Gilbreth in 1904 and relocation to New York,^[10] she completed a dissertation for a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1911, but was not awarded the degree due to her noncompliance with residency requirements for doctoral candidates.^[14] The dissertation was published as The Psychology of Management: The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste in 1914.^[15]^[16]

After the Gilbreths relocated their family to Providence, Rhode Island, Lillian enrolled at Brown University. She earned a Ph.D. in applied psychology in 1915, which made her the first of the pioneers of industrial management to have a doctorate.^[16]^[17] The topic of her dissertation was efficient teaching methods and titled Some Aspects of Eliminating Waste in Teaching.^[18] Her doctoral dissertation was published in 2019 as a book titled Eliminating Waste in Teaching (ISBN 978-1-7320191-0-2).

Marriage and family

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Lillian Moller met Frank Bunker Gilbreth in June 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts, en route to Europe with her chaperone, who was Frank's cousin.^[19] He had apprenticed in several building trades in the East and established a contracting business with offices in Boston, New York, and London.^[20]

The couple married on October 19, 1904, in Oakland, California, and settled in New York. They later moved to Providence, Rhode Island, and eventually relocated their family to Montclair, New Jersey.^[16]

As planned, the Gilbreths became the parents of a large family that included twelve children. One died young in 1912; one was still-born in 1915; and eleven of them lived to adulthood, including Ernestine Gilbreth, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., and Robert Moller Gilbreth.^[3]^[21]^[22]

After Frank died of a heart attack on June 14, 1924, Lillian never remarried.^[23]

Career

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For more than forty years, Gilbreth's career combined psychology with the study of scientific management and engineering. She also included her perspectives as a wife and mother in her research, writing, and consulting work. Gilbreth became a pioneer in what is now known as industrial and organizational psychology.^[11] She helped industrial engineers recognize the importance of the psychological dimensions of work. In addition, she became the first American engineer ever to create a synthesis of psychology and scientific management. (Gilbreth introduced the concept of using psychology to study management at the Dartmouth College Conference on Scientific Management in 1911).^[24]

In addition to jointly running Gilbreth, Incorporated, their business and engineering consulting firm, Lillian and Frank wrote numerous publications as sole authors, as well as co-authoring multiple books and more than fifty papers on a variety of scientific topics. However, in their joint publications, Lillian was not always named as a co-author, possibly due to publishers' concerns about naming a female writer. Although her credentials included a doctorate in psychology, she was less frequently credited in their joint publications than her husband, who did not attend college.^[11]^[25]

The Gilbreths were certain that the revolutionary ideas of Frederick Winslow Taylor would be neither easy to implement nor sufficient; their implementation would require hard work by engineers and psychologists to make them successful. The Gilbreths also believed that scientific management as formulated by Taylor fell short when it came to managing the human element on the shop floor.^[26] The Gilbreths helped formulate a constructive critique of Taylorism; this critique had the support of other successful managers.^[27]

After Frank's passing and the mourning period, Lillian found that the homages to her husband were not a sign of her own taking, when three of her biggest clients did not renew or cancelled contracts. Close associates offered her employment in their firms, but she wanted to keep Frank's business afloat.^[28]

Time, motion, and fatigue study

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Gilbreth and her husband were equal partners in the engineering and management consulting firm of Gilbreth, Incorporated. She continued to lead the company for decades after his death in 1924.^[10] The Gilbreths, both pioneers in scientific management, were especially adept at performing time-and-motion studies. They named their methodology the Gilbreth System and used the slogan, "The One Best Way to Do Work," to promote it. The Gilbreths also developed a new technique for their studies that used a motion-picture camera to record work processes. These filmed observations enabled the Gilbreths to redesign machinery to better suit workers' movements to improve efficiency and reduce fatigue.^[29] Their research on fatigue study was a forerunner to ergonomics.^[30] In addition, the Gilbreths applied a human approach to scientific management to develop innovations in workplace efficiency, such as improved lighting and regular breaks, as well as ideas for workplace psychological well-being, such as suggestion boxes and free books.^[31]^[32]

Domestic management and home economics

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Gilbreth collaborated with her husband until his death in 1924.^[11] Afterwards, she continued to research, write, and teach, in addition to consulting with businesses and manufacturers. She also participated in professional organizations such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers until her own death nearly fifty years later in 1972.^[33] In addition, Gilbreth turned her attention to the home, despite her aversion to housework and the fact that she had long employed full-time household help. Her children once described her kitchen as a "model of inefficiency."^[32]

Due to discrimination within the engineering community, Gilbreth shifted her efforts toward research projects in the female-friendly arena of domestic management and home economics.^[32] She applied the principles of scientific management to household tasks and "sought to provide women with shorter, simpler, and easier ways of doing housework to enable them to seek paid employment outside the home."^[34] The Gilbreth children often took part in the experiments.^[35]

In addition, Gilbreth was instrumental in the development of the modern kitchen, creating the "work triangle" and linear-kitchen layouts that are often used today.^[35] In the late 1920s, she collaborated with Mary E. Dillon, president of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company on the creation of an efficient kitchen, equipped with gas-powered appliances and named the Kitchen Practical. Inspired by Dillon's criticisms of her own kitchen, it was designed on three principles: the correct and uniform height of working surfaces; a circular work place; and a general "circular routing of working", all carefully analyzed to reduce the time and effort required in the preparation of meals.^[36] It was unveiled in 1929 at a Women's Exposition.^[35]

She is also credited with the invention of the foot-pedal trash can, adding shelves to the inside of refrigerator doors (including the butter tray and egg keeper), and wall-light switches, all now standard.^[32] Gilbreth filed numerous patents for her designs, including one to improve the electric can opener and another for a wastewater hose for washing machines. When Gilbreth was an industrial engineer working at General Electric, she "interviewed over 4,000 women to design the proper height for stoves, sinks, and other kitchen fixtures as she worked on improving kitchen designs".^[37]

After World War I, the Gilbreths did pioneering work with the rehabilitation of war-veteran amputees.^[23] Lillian continued consulting with businesses and manufacturers after Frank's death. Her clients included Johnson & Johnson and Macy's, among others.^[16] Lillian spent three years at Macy's to find solutions to their sales and human resource issues. Solutions included changing light fixtures to reduce eye fatigue and eliminating duplicate recordings of sales checks.^[38]

In 1926, when Johnson & Johnson hired her as a consultant to do marketing research on sanitary napkins,^[39] Gilbreth and the firm benefited in three ways. First, Johnson & Johnson could use her training as a psychologist in the measurement and analysis of attitudes and opinions. Second, it could give her experience as an engineer specializing in the interaction between bodies and material objects. Third, her public image as a mother and a modern career woman could help the firm build consumer trust in its products.^[40] In addition to her work with Johnson & Johnson, Gilbreth was instrumental in the design of a desk in cooperation with IBM for display at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933^[41]

Volunteer work and government service

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Gilbreth continued her private consulting practice while serving as a volunteer and an adviser to several government agencies and nonprofit groups. In 1927 she became a charter member of the Altrusa Club of New York City, an organization for Professional and Business Women started in 1917 for the purpose of providing community service.^[42] Gilbreth's government work began as a result of her longtime friendship with Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, both of whom she had known in California^[43] (Gilbreth had presided over the Women's Branch of the Engineers' Hoover for President campaign).^[44]

Lou Hoover urged Gilbreth to join the Girl Scouts as a consultant in 1929. She remained active in the organization for more than twenty years, becoming a member of its board of directors.^[45] During the Great Depression, President Hoover appointed Gilbreth to the Organization on Unemployment Relief as head of the "Share the Work" program.^[46] In 1930, under the Hoover administration, she headed the women's section of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment and helped to gain the cooperation of women's groups for reducing unemployment.^[47] During World War II Gilbreth continued advising governmental groups and also provided expertise on education and labor issues (especially women in the workforce) for organizations such as the War Manpower Commission, the Office of War Information,^[48] and the U.S. Navy.^[49] In her later years, Gilbreth served on the Chemical Warfare Board^[50] and on Harry Truman's Civil Defense Advisory Council.^[51] During the Korean War she served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.^[52]

Author and educator

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Gilbreth had a lifelong interest in teaching and education. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, she took enough education courses to earn a teacher's certificate,^[53] and her doctoral dissertation at Brown University was on applying the principles of scientific management to secondary school teaching.^[54]

While residing in Providence, Rhode Island, Gilbreth and her husband taught free, two-week-long summer schools in scientific management from 1913 to 1916.^[55] The Gilbreths also discussed teaching the Gilbreth System of time-and-motion study to members of industry, but it was not until after her husband's death in 1924 that she created a formal motion-study course. Gilbreth presented this idea at the First Prague International Management Congress in Prague in July 1924. Her first course began in January 1925. Gilbreth's classes offered to "prepare a member of an organization, who has adequate training both in scientific method and in plant problems, to take charge of Motion Study work in that organization."^[56] Coursework included laboratory projects and field trips to private firms to witness the application of scientific management.^[57] She ran a total of seven motion study courses out of her home in Montclair, New Jersey until 1930.^[58]

To earn additional income to support her large family, Gilbreth delivered numerous addresses to business and industry gatherings, as well as on college and university campuses such as Harvard, Yale, Colgate, the University of Michigan, MIT, Stanford, and Purdue University.^[29] In 1925 she succeeded her husband as a visiting lecturer at Purdue, where he had been delivering annual lectures.^[59] In 1935 she became a professor of management at Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering, and the country's first female engineering professor.^[60] She was promoted to a full professor at Purdue in 1940.^[10]^[61] Gilbreth divided her time between Purdue's departments of industrial engineering, industrial psychology, home economics, and the dean's office, where she consulted on careers for women.^[62] In cooperation with Marvin Mundel, Gilbreth established and supervised a time-and-motion-study laboratory at Purdue's School of Industrial Engineering. She also demonstrated how time-and-motion studies could be used in agricultural studies and later transferred motion-study techniques to the home economics department under the banner of "work simplification".^[63] Gilbreth retired from Purdue's faculty in 1948.^[64]^{[page needed]}

After Gilbreth's retirement from Purdue, she continued to travel and deliver lectures.^[65] She also taught at several other colleges and universities, and became head of the Newark College of Engineering in 1941.^[61]^[66] Gilbreth was appointed the Knapp Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin's School of Engineering in 1955.^[61]^[67] She also taught at Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers University.^[68] Whilst teaching at Bryn Mawr, she met then student of social economy, Anne Gillespie Shaw, who later worked for Gilbreth Management Consultants, doing commercial research studies and became a lifelong friend and colleague.^[69] In 1964, at the age of eighty-six, Gilbreth became resident lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[70] In 1968, when her health finally began to fail, Gilbreth retired from her active public life and eventually entered a nursing home.^[65]

Death and legacy

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Gilbreth died of a stroke on January 2, 1972, in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of ninety-three.^[71]^[72] Her ashes were scattered at sea.

Gilbreth was best known for her work as an industrial engineer and a pioneer in the field of management theory. Dubbed "America's first lady of engineering,"^[73] she brought her training in psychology to time-and-motion studies and demonstrated how companies and industries could improve their management techniques, efficiency, and productivity. Gilbreth's extensive research and writings on her own and in collaboration with her husband emphasized "the human element in scientific management."^[74] Her expertise and major contribution to the field of scientific management was integrating the psychological and mental processes with the time-and-motion studies. She also helped make these types of studies widely accepted. In addition, Gilbreth was among the first to establish industrial engineering curricula in college and university engineering schools. Gilbreth's book, The Psychology of Management (1914), was an early major work in the history of engineering thought and the first to combine psychology with elements of management theory.^[75] Major repositories of Gilbreth materials are at the Archives Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.,^[76] and at Purdue University Library, Archives and Special Collections, at West Lafayette, Indiana.^[77]^[78]

Gilbreth also made contributions on behalf of women. Her pioneering work in industrial engineering influenced women in the field. In addition to her lectures on various engineering topics, she encouraged women to study industrial engineering and management.^[79] Purdue awarded its first PhD in engineering to a woman in 1950, two years after Gilbreth retired from the university.^[71]

Several engineering awards have been named in Gilbreth's honor. The National Academy of Engineering established the Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectureships in 2001 to recognize outstanding young American engineers.^[80] The highest honor bestowed by the Institute of Industrial Engineers is the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award for "those who have distinguished themselves through contributions to the welfare of mankind in the field of industrial engineering".^[81] The Lillian M. Gilbreth Distinguished Professor award at Purdue University is bestowed on a member of the industrial engineering department.^[82] The Society of Women Engineers awards the Lillian Moller Gilbreth Memorial Scholarship to female engineering undergraduates.^[83]

Two of the Gilbreth children also paid tribute to their mother in books about their family life. Cheaper by the Dozen (1948), a bestseller by Gilbreth's son, Frank Jr., and daughter, Ernestine, was made into a motion picture in 1950 starring Myrna Loy as Lillian and Clifton Webb as Frank. The book's sequel, Belles on Their Toes (1950), also written by Frank Jr. and Ernestine, was made into a motion picture sequel in 1952.^[84] Frank Jr. also paid tribute to his mother in Time Out for Happiness (1972).^[71]

In 2018, the College of Engineering at Purdue University established the prestigious Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to attract and prepare outstanding individuals with recently awarded Ph.D.'s for a career in engineering academia through interdisciplinary research, training, and professional development.^[85]

Awards and honors

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Gilbreth received numerous awards and honors for her contributions.

Gilbreth is the recipient of twenty-three honorary degrees from schools such as Rutgers University, Princeton University, Brown University, Smith College, and the University of Michigan.^[71]^[86]
Her portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery.^[87]
The Gilbreth Engineering Library at Purdue University is named in honor of Lillian and Frank Gilbreth.^[88]
In 1921, Lillian Gilbreth was the second person to be named an honorary member of the American Society of Industrial Engineers.^[89]
She joined the British Women's Engineering Society in 1924.^[90]
Gilbreth was accepted to the membership of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1926, becoming its second female member.^[71]^[86]^[91]
In 1931 she received the first Gilbreth Medal, which was initiated in honor of her late husband.^[71]^[92]
In 1941 the Purdue University chapter of Mortar Board, a national honor society, named Gilbreth an honorary member.^[93]
In 1944 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded Gilbreth and her husband (posthumously) the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal for their contributions to industrial engineering.^[71]^[86]^[91]
In 1950 Gilbreth became the first honorary member of the newly created Society of Women Engineers.^[92]
In 1951 she was awarded the Wallace Clark Award.^[94]
The University of California's alumni association named Gilbreth the 1954 Alumna of the Year.^[95]
In 1965 Gilbreth became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering.^[96]^[80]
In 1966 Gilbreth became the first woman to receive the Hoover Medal.^[a]
She was made an honorary Member of the British Women's Engineering Society in 1967.^[90]
Gilbreth was a recipient of Gold Medal award from the US National Institute of Social Sciences.^[71]
In 1984 the U.S. Postal Service issued a 40-cent Great Americans series postage stamp in Gilbreth's honor,^[98]^[b]
In 1995, Gilbreth was inducted into the US National Women's Hall of Fame.^[101]

Selected published works

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A Primer of Scientific Management (1912), co-authored with Frank B. Gilbreth^[102]
The Psychology of Management: the Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste (1914)^[16]
Motion Models (1915) with Frank B. Gilbreth^[102]
Fatigue Study: The Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary Waste; a First Step in Motion Study] (1916) with Frank B. Gilbreth^[103]
Applied Motion Study; A collection of papers on the efficient method to industrial preparedness. (1917) with Frank B. Gilbreth^[102]
Motion Study for the Handicapped (1920) with Frank B. Gilbreth^[102]
The Quest of the One Best Way: A Sketch of the Life of Frank Bunker Gilbreth (1925)
The Home-maker and Her Job (1927)
Living With Our Children (1928)
The Foreman in Manpower Management (1947), with Alice Rice Cook
Normal Lives for the Disabled (1948), with Edna Yost
Management in the Home: Happier Living Through Saving Time and Energy (1954), with Orpha Mae Thomas and Eleanor Clymer
As I Remember: An Autobiography (1998), published posthumously

Notes

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^ The Hoover Medal, an engineering prize awarded jointly by five engineering societies, was awarded to Gilbreth for her "contributions to motion study and to the recognition of the principle that management engineering and human relations are intertwined" and "her unselfish application of energy and creative efforts in modifying industrial and home environments for the handicapped has resulted in full employment of their capabilities and elevation of their self-esteem".^[97]
^ Although the American Psychological Association identified Gilbreth as the first psychologist to be so commemorated, psychologists Dr. Gary Brucato and Dr. John D. Hogan later questioned this claim, noting that John Dewey had appeared on an American stamp in 1968, seventeen years earlier; however, Brocato and Hogan also emphasized that Gilbreth was the first female psychologist to be so honored.^[99] A comprehensive international list of psychologists on stamps (compiled by psychology historian Ludy T. Benjamin) indicates that Gilbreth was the second female psychologist commemorated by a postage stamp in all the world, preceded only by Maria Montessori in India in 1970.^[100]

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^ Kass-Simon & Farnes (1990), p. 162.
^ ^a ^b "National Academy of Engineering Armstrong Endowment for Young Engineers – Gilbreth Lectures". National Academy of Engineering. April 2011.
^ "The Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award". Institute of Industrial Engineers. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
^ "Purdue College of Engineering – Distinguished Professors". Purdue University. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
^ "SWE – Undergraduate Scholarships". Society of Women Engineers. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
^
Weber 1997, p. 45 See also:
- "Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)". IMDb. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- "Belles on their Toes (1952)". IMDb. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
^ "Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellowships at Purdue Engineering". Purdue University. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Norden Is Honored For His Inventions ... Other Award Winners Include E.G. Budd, R.E. Flanders and Dr. Lillian Gilbreth". The New York Times. November 30, 1944. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
^ "American Women: A selection from the National Portrait Gallery – Lillian Moller Gilbreth". National Portrait Gallery. Archived from the original on June 13, 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
^ Weber (1997), p. 38.
^ Kass-Simon & Farnes (1990), p. 159.
^ ^a ^b "The Woman Engineer". www.theiet.org. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Graham (1998), p. 105.
^ ^a ^b "The SWE Story... timeline of achievement". Society of Women Engineers. December 18, 2018.
^ "Archive". Mortar Board. June 15, 2016. Archived from the original on September 20, 2021. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
^ Michael C. Wood, John Cunningham Wood (2003). Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Critical Evaluations in Business and ... p. 175.
^ "Alumnus/a of the Year Recipients". Cal Alumni Association. January 27, 2010. Archived from the original on October 2, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
^ Finken, De Anne (Spring 2005). "Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Ph.D.: A Legend in her own time – and now!" (PDF). SWE Magazine. Society of Women Engineers. pp. 16–22. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
^ "ASME – Past Hoover Medal Recipients". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
^ "Women On Stamps – Publication 512". United States Postal Service. April 2003. Archived from the original on April 28, 2006.
^ Brucato Jr., Gary; John D. Hogan (Spring 1999). "Psychologists on postage stamps". The General Psychologist. 34 (1): 65.
^ Benjamin, Ludy T. (2003). "Why Can't Psychology Get a Stamp?". Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. 5 (4): 443–454. doi:10.1023/A:1026071631669.
^ National Women's Hall of Fame, Lillian Moller Gilbreth
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Weber (1997), p. 41.
^ Frank Bunker Gilbreth; Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1916). Fatigue Study: The Elimination of Humanity's Greatest Unnecessary Waste: A First Step in Motion Study. Sturgis and Walton Company.

References

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Graham, Laurel D (1994). "Critical Biography Without Subjects and Objects: An Encounter with Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth". The Sociological Quarterly. 35 (4): 621–643. doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1994.tb00420.x.
Graham, Laurel D. (1998). Managing On Her Own: Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and Women's Work in the Interwar Era. Norcross, Georgia: Engineering & Management Press. ISBN 978-0-89806-185-7.
Gugin, Linda C.; St. Clair, James E. (2015). Indiana's 200: The People Who Shaped the Hoosier State. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press. pp. 131–33. ISBN 978-0-87195-387-2.
Lancaster, Jane (February 1996). "O Pioneer". Brown Alumni Monthly. 96 (5). Archived from the original on September 23, 2002. Retrieved September 23, 2002.
Lancaster, Jane (2004). Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth, A Life Beyond 'Cheaper by the Dozen'. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-612-1.
Kass-Simon, G.; Farnes, Patricia, eds. (1990). "Lillian Moller Gilbreth and the Rise of Modern Industrial Engineering". Women of Science: Righting the Record. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 157–64. ISBN 0-253-20813-0.
Sullivan, Sherry (1995). "Management's Unsung Theorist: An Examination of the Works of Lillian M. Gilbreth". Biography. 18: 31–41. doi:10.1353/bio.2010.0256. S2CID 146743142.
Weber, Catherine E. Forrest (1997). "Dr. Lillian Gilbreth and the One Best Way". Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. 9 (3). Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society: 38–45.
Wood, Michael C. (2003). Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Critical Evaluations in Business and Management. Vol. 1. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-30946-2.
Yost, Edna (1943). "Lillian Moller Gilbreth". American Women in Science. Philadelphia: Frederick A. Stokes.
Yost, Edna (1949). Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Partners for Life. Piscataway, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Further reading

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Gilbreth, Frank; Lillian Gilbreth (1953). William R. Spriegel; Clark E. Myers (eds.). The Writings of the Gilbreths. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin.

External links

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Works by Lillian Moller Gilbreth at Project Gutenberg
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Biography and Index to Purdue University Library's vast holdings of Gilbreth papers
A 1955 newspaper interview with Gilbreth
"The Gilbreths: An Extraordinary American Family"., comprehensive family and professional history.
Podcast (with transcript) of interview with Gilbreth's biographer Jane Lancaster, from the Lemelson Center
Lillian Gilbreth Keynote Speech, Society of Women Engineers National Convention, 1957
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v t e Gilbreth family
Family members	Frank Bunker Gilbreth Lillian Moller Gilbreth Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. Robert Moller Gilbreth
Family memoirs	Cheaper by the Dozen Belles on Their Toes
Film adaptations	Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film) Belles on Their Toes Cheaper by the Dozen (2003 film) Cheaper by the Dozen 2 Cheaper by the Dozen (2022 film)
Related	Gilbreth Medal The Psychology of Management Therblig

Inductees to the National Women's Hall of Fame

1970–1979

1973	Jane Addams Marian Anderson Susan B. Anthony Clara Barton Mary McLeod Bethune Elizabeth Blackwell Pearl S. Buck Rachel Carson Mary Cassatt Emily Dickinson Amelia Earhart Alice Hamilton Helen Hayes Helen Keller Eleanor Roosevelt Florence Sabin Margaret Chase Smith Elizabeth Cady Stanton Helen Brooke Taussig Harriet Tubman
1976	Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
1979	Dorothea Dix Juliette Gordon Low Alice Paul Elizabeth Bayley Seton

1980–1989

1981	Margaret Sanger Sojourner Truth
1982	Carrie Chapman Catt Frances Perkins
1983	Belva Lockwood Lucretia Mott
1984	Mary "Mother" Harris Jones Bessie Smith
1986	Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe
1988	Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Mary Risteau Ida B. Wells-Barnett

1990–1999

1990	Margaret Bourke-White Barbara Jordan Billie Jean King Florence B. Seibert
1991	Gertrude Belle Elion
1993	Ethel Percy Andrus Antoinette Blackwell Emily Blackwell Shirley Chisholm Jacqueline Cochran Ruth Colvin Marian Wright Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Putnam Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon Mary Mahoney Wilma Mankiller Constance Baker Motley Georgia O'Keeffe Annie Oakley Rosa Parks Esther Peterson Jeannette Rankin Ellen Swallow Richards Elaine Roulet Katherine Siva Saubel Gloria Steinem Helen Stephens Lillian Wald Madam C. J. Walker Faye Wattleton Rosalyn S. Yalow Gloria Yerkovich
1994	Bella Abzug Ella Baker Myra Bradwell Annie Jump Cannon Jane Cunningham Croly Catherine East Geraldine Ferraro Charlotte Perkins Gilman Grace Hopper Helen LaKelly Hunt Zora Neale Hurston Anne Hutchinson Frances Wisebart Jacobs Susette La Flesche Louise McManus Maria Mitchell Antonia Novello Linda Richards Wilma Rudolph Betty Bone Schiess Muriel Siebert Nettie Stevens Oprah Winfrey Sarah Winnemucca Fanny Wright
1995	Virginia Apgar Ann Bancroft Amelia Bloomer Mary Breckinridge Eileen Collins Elizabeth Hanford Dole Anne Dallas Dudley Mary Baker Eddy Ella Fitzgerald Margaret Fuller Matilda Joslyn Gage Lillian Moller Gilbreth Nannerl O. Keohane Maggie Kuhn Sandra Day O'Connor Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Pat Schroeder Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
1996	Louisa May Alcott Charlotte Anne Bunch Frances Xavier Cabrini Mary A. Hallaren Oveta Culp Hobby Wilhelmina Cole Holladay Anne Morrow Lindbergh Maria Goeppert Mayer Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose Maria Tallchief Edith Wharton
1998	Madeleine Albright Maya Angelou Nellie Bly Lydia Moss Bradley Mary Steichen Calderone Mary Ann Shadd Cary Joan Ganz Cooney Gerty Cori Sarah Grimké Julia Ward Howe Shirley Ann Jackson Shannon Lucid Katharine Dexter McCormick Rozanne L. Ridgway Edith Nourse Rogers Felice Schwartz Eunice Kennedy Shriver Beverly Sills Florence Wald Angelina Grimké Weld Chien-Shiung Wu

2000–2009

2000	Faye Glenn Abdellah Emma Smith DeVoe Marjory Stoneman Douglas Mary Dyer Sylvia A. Earle Crystal Eastman Jeanne Holm Leontine T. Kelly Frances Oldham Kelsey Kate Mullany Janet Reno Anna Howard Shaw Sophia Smith Ida Tarbell Wilma L. Vaught Mary Edwards Walker Annie Dodge Wauneka Eudora Welty Frances E. Willard
2001	Dorothy H. Andersen Lucille Ball Rosalynn Carter Lydia Maria Child Bessie Coleman Dorothy Day Marian de Forest Althea Gibson Beatrice A. Hicks Barbara Holdridge Harriet Williams Russell Strong Emily Howell Warner Victoria Woodhull
2002	Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Ruth Bader Ginsburg Katharine Graham Bertha Holt Mary Engle Pennington Mercy Otis Warren
2003	Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea Lange Mildred Robbins Leet Patsy Takemoto Mink Sacagawea Anne Sullivan Sheila E. Widnall
2005	Florence E. Allen Ruth Fulton Benedict Betty Bumpers Hillary Clinton Rita Rossi Colwell Mother Marianne Cope Maya Y. Lin Patricia A. Locke Blanche Stuart Scott Mary Burnett Talbert
2007	Eleanor K. Baum Julia Child Martha Coffin Pelham Wright Swanee Hunt Winona LaDuke Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Judith L. Pipher Catherine Filene Shouse Henrietta Szold
2009	Louise Bourgeois Mildred Cohn Karen DeCrow Susan Kelly-Dreiss Allie B. Latimer Emma Lazarus Ruth Patrick Rebecca Talbot Perkins Susan Solomon Kate Stoneman

2010–2019

2011	St. Katharine Drexel Dorothy Harrison Eustis Loretta C. Ford Abby Kelley Foster Helen Murray Free Billie Holiday Coretta Scott King Lilly Ledbetter Barbara A. Mikulski Donna E. Shalala Kathrine Switzer
2013	Betty Ford Ina May Gaskin Julie Krone Kate Millett Nancy Pelosi Mary Joseph Rogers Bernice Sandler Anna Schwartz Emma Willard
2015	Tenley Albright Nancy Brinker Martha Graham Marcia Greenberger Barbara Iglewski Jean Kilbourne Carlotta Walls LaNier Philippa Marrack Mary Harriman Rumsey Eleanor Smeal
2017	Matilda Cuomo Temple Grandin Lorraine Hansberry Victoria Jackson Sherry Lansing Clare Boothe Luce Aimee Mullins Carol Mutter Janet Rowley Alice Waters
2019	Gloria Allred Angela Davis Sarah Deer Jane Fonda Nicole Malachowski Rose O'Neill Louise Slaughter Sonia Sotomayor Laurie Spiegel Flossie Wong-Staal

2020–2029

2020	Aretha Franklin Barbara Hillary Barbara Rose Johns Henrietta Lacks Toni Morrison Mary Church Terrell
2022	Octavia E. Butler Judy Chicago Rebecca S. Halstead Mia Hamm Joy Harjo Emily Howland Katherine Johnson Indra Nooyi Michelle Obama
2024	Patricia Bath Ruby Bridges Elouise P. Cobell Kimberlé Crenshaw Peggy McIntosh Judith Plaskow Loretta Ross Sandy Stone Anna Wessels Williams Serena Williams

v t e Henry Laurence Gantt Medal
1929–1950	1929: Henry Laurence Gantt (posthumously) 1930: Fred J. Miller 1931: Leon P. Alford 1932: Henry S. Dennison 1933: Henry Wallace Clark 1934: Horace B. Cheney 1935: Arthur Howland Young 1936: Morris E. Leeds 1940: William Loren Batt 1941: Paul Eugene Holden 1943: Dexter S. Kimball 1944: Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (posthumously) and Lillian Moller Gilbreth 1945: John Milton Hancock 1946: Paul G. Hoffman 1947: Alvin E. Dodd 1948: Harold Fowler McCormick 1949: Arthur Clinton Spurr 1950: Charles R. Hook Sr.
1951–1975	1951: Thomas Roy Jones 1952: Frank Henry Neely 1953: Thomas E. Millsop 1954: Clarence Francis 1955: Walker Lee Cisler 1956: Henning Webb Prentis Jr. 1957: Harold F. Smiddy 1958: Richard Redwood Deupree 1959: Peter Drucker 1960: Charles Perry McCormick 1961: Lyndall Urwick 1962: Austin J. Tobin 1963: Lawrence A. Appley 1964: Harold Bright Maynard 1965: Ralph J. Cordiner 1968: J. Erik Jonsson 1969: David Packard 1970: Frederick Kappel 1971: Donald C. Burnham 1972: Robert Elton Brooker 1973: John T. Connor 1974: Willard Rockwell 1975: Patrick E. Haggerty
1976–1999	1976: Kenneth Daniel 1982: Charles Luckman 1983: Walter A. Fallon 1984: Rawleigh Warner Jr. 1987: Edmund T. Pratt Jr. 1988: William S. Lee 1998: George N. Hatsopoulos
2000–present	2000: Paul Soros 2001: Roy M. Huffington 2002: Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. 2003: William R. Timken 2004: Julie Spicer England 2007: Dean Kamen 2009: Charles M. Vest 2018: Todd R. Allen 2019: Margaret G. McCullough

v t e Cheaper by the Dozen
Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Novels	Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) Belles on Their Toes (1950)
Films	Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) Belles on Their Toes (1952) Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) Cheaper by the Dozen (2022)
People/Characters	Frank Bunker Gilbreth Lillian Moller Gilbreth Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Robert Moller Gilbreth