[4][5] Lydia Giberson began working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as a psychiatrist in 1932.
[7] During the Second World War she acted as a consultant to the United States Public Health Service and the Office for Emergency Management.
[8] Shortly before her retirement in 1960 Giberson became the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's first woman assistant vice president, an accomplishment which earned her the title of New York State's outstanding professional woman of the year.
[2][9] During her career at Metropolitan Life Lydia Giberson published 70 journal articles and book chapters.
[3] In 1960 Lydia Giberson and her husband Jacques Deane retired to Santa Barbara, California.