Lotte Bailyn

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Lotte Franziska Bailyn , née Lotte Franziska Lazarsfeld , (born July 17, 1930 in Vienna ) is an American social psychologist.

Life

Lotte Lazarsfeld is the daughter of Marie Jahoda and Paul Felix Lazarsfeld , whose marriage was divorced in 1934. She attended the Montessori School in Vienna. Her mother emigrated to England in 1937, and her father took her to the United States, where she grew up in New York City . In 1951 she made a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Swarthmore College . She then went to Radcliffe College , made an MA in 1953 and received her PhD in social psychology in 1956 . In 1952 she married the historian Bernard Bailyn , who won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1969 , and took care of the family division of labor to raise two sons. With Bernard Bailyn she wrote the monograph Massachusetts Shipping, 1697–1714: A Statistical Study in 1959 .

Like many academics of her generation, she had no serious career opportunities and got by in research with temporary contracts. In 1956 and 1957 she worked as a research associate at Harvard University , in 1957 and 1958 as an instructor in the Department of Economics and Social Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then again for the next few years without a permanent job as an assistant and lecturer at Harvard. In 1969 she went back to MIT and got a position as associate professor there in 1972 when she was 41 years old. She received a professorship at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1980.

Bailyn carried out research on structural change in the world of work in industrial projects and, in her study published in 1993, came to the conclusion that the isolation between the world of work and family that arose in industrial society was a hindrance to work productivity and job satisfaction. Their research results received little attention at the time. Under the term “dual agenda”, it proposes measures with which this division can be broken. Years later, the questions and research results were taken up under the heading of compatibility of work and family .

Bailyn is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mass media and children: a study of exposure habits and cognitive effects . Washington: American Psychological Assn., 1959. Radcliffe College Dissertation, 1956
  • with Bernard Bailyn: Massachusetts Shipping, 1697-1714: A Statistical Study . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1959
  • with Edgar H. Schein : Living with Technology: Issues at Mid-Career . MIT Press, 1980
  • Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate World . Free Press, 1993
    • Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives . Cornell, 2006
  • with Charles M. Vest , Robert J. Birgeneau : A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT . Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999
  • with Joyce K. Fletcher; Bettye H. Pruitt; Rhona Rapoport: Beyond Work- Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance . Jossey-Bass, 2001 ISBN 0-7879-5730-5
  • Associate Editor of National Academy of Sciences : Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering . National Academies Press, 2006 ISBN 0-309-10042-9

literature

  • Doris Ingrisch: Bailyn, Lotte. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 39–42.

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personal data
SURNAME Bailyn, Lotte
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bailyn, Lotte Franziska (full name); Lazarsfeld, Lotte Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna