Lotte Franziska Bailyn (née Lazarsfeld; born July 17, 1930) is an American social psychologist. She is the T Wilson Professor of Management, Emerita at the

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. She was the first woman faculty member at MIT Sloan.

Early life and education

Lotte Lazarsfeld was born in

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in 1930. She is the daughter of

Marie Jahoda Marie Jahoda (26 January 1907 – 28 April 2001) was an Austrian-British social psychologist. Biography Jahoda was born in Vienna to a Jewish merchant's family, and like many other psychologists of her time, grew up in Austria where political o ...

and

Paul Felix Lazarsfeld Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (February 13, 1901August 30, 1976) was an Austrian-American sociologist. The founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research, he exerted influence over the techniques and the organization of social resea ...

. Her family fled Austria to New York City in 1937 after the Nazi occupation. In 1951, she earned her BA in mathematics from

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and her PhD in social psychology from the Radcliffe Graduate School in 1956.

Career

Like many female academics of her generation, Bailyn 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 returned 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. From 1997 to 1999, she was Chair of the MIT faculty, succeeding Lawrence Bacow. 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. Her research results received little attention at the time. Under the term “dual agenda”, it proposes measures with which this split can be broken. Years later, the questions and research results were taken up under the heading of compatibility of work and family.

Personal life

She married

Bernard Bailyn Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1953. Bailyn won the Pulitzer Pri ...

on June 18, 1952. Together they had two children, Charles and John.

Awards and honors

In 2000, she received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the

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in Piraeus, Greece. In 2021, Bailyn was awarded the 2021 Centennial Medal of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is a Fellow of the

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and the

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Publications

* ''Mass media and children: a study of exposure habits and cognitive effects''. Washington : American Psychological Assn., 1959. Dissertation Radcliffe College, 1956 * with Bernard Bailyn: ''Massachusetts Shipping, 1697–1714: A Statistical Study'' (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

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: ''A study on the status of women faculty in science at MIT'' (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 * Mitherausgeberin von

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: ''Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering'' (National Academies Press, 2006) ISBN 0-309-10042-9

References

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