Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

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Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (April 4, 1908 – November 4, 2006) was the daughter of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior. The Gilbreths are now most commonly remembered as the parents of their twelve children.

The upbringing of the twelve Gilbreth children was chronicled in the comic memoir Cheaper by the Dozen (1948, adapted in 1950 film and very loosely adapted in a 2003 film). The book, as well as a sequel titled Belles on Their Toes (1952), was written by Ernestine with her brother Frank.

Ernestine Carey was a graduate of Smith College, worked as a department store buyer, and was the author of several other books as well. She was married to Charles E. Carey, with whom she had two children.

She died on November 4, 2006 of natural causes, aged 98.

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• "'Cheaper by the Dozen' author dead", CNN, November 6, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-06.
• "Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, Author of Childhood Memoir, Dies", New York Times, November 6, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-11-06.