Reminiscences of Mary Dublin Keyserling : oral history, 1982.

Biographical Note

Economist; interviewee married Leon H. Keyserling.

Scope and Contents

Family background, Barnard College, BA 1930; graduate studies, London School of Economics and Columbia University, 1931-33; Economics instructor, Sarah Lawrence College, 1933-38; Executive Director, National Consumers League, 1938-40: lobbying for Federal Fair Standards Act; Hearings coordinator, House Committee, 1940-42; Office of Civilian Defense, 1942-43; Chief Liberated Areas Division, Foreign Economic Administration's Bureau of Supplies, 1943-46; director, International Economic Analysis Division, Office of International Trade, 1946-52; Associate Director, Conference on Economic Progress, 1953-63; director, Women's Bureau, 1964-69: lobbying for equal pay for women, Federal day care programs; studies of day care programs worldwide.

Subjects

• Cheek, Jeannette, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Economists--Interviews.
• International economic relations.
• Interviews.
• Keyserling, Mary Dublin.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Foreign Economic Administration.
• United States. Women's Bureau.
• Women in public life--Interviews.

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