Juanita M. Kreps

North Carolina · resident1921–2010

United States Secretary of Commerce (1921-2010)

Died in Durham
Studied at Duke University
Worked at Duke University

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[I]t has occurred to me that had I been a male in the early '40s I would have been in the service. Being female I was allowed to continue my education and that is a very important thing to remember.

My personal solution to those difficult problems was to try to go ahead and do what I felt I could do no matter what the rules were.

[T]hey were going to want more than home and family; that satisfying work was important to women. What were they going to do with their minds when they graduated?