Design Historian Michelle Millar Fisher Views This 1950s Innovation as a Turning Point for Parenting

I’ve always been really interested in the ways in which women experience the workplace. In the U.S., the workplace is a hostile place to be a parent, especially a mother. As a design historian, I look at how objects shape us, and breast pumps are part of that. They assist lactating people while allowing them to do other things—both a positive and a negative in terms of literally squeezing every last drop of productivity out of them.