Chrysler's “Most Beautiful Engineer”: Lucille J. Pieti in the Pillory of Fame

Edward A. Malone Missouri University of Science and Technology

Abstract

The case of Lucille Pieti, a technical writer at Chrysler, serves as a discipline-specific illustration of some of Rossiter's (1995) generalizations about women scientists and engineers after World War II. Like other women with engineering degrees, Pieti emerged from college with high hopes, only to find herself consigned to one of the traditional ghettos for women scientists and engineers: technical communication. Her case is unusual, however, because she became a national celebrity.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2010-03-11
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10.1080/10572250903559258
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