Mimi Sverdrup Lunden (13 June 1894 – 8 January 1955) was a Norwegian educator, non-fiction writer and proponent for women's rights [1] Lunden was born in Sulen, Sogn og Fjordane, a daughter of Lutheran theologian Edvard Sverdrup and Agnes Vollan (1866–1952).

Her husband was director at Kongsberg Municipal Middle School prior to his death in 1930.

Lunden worked for a time as a teacher at Kongsberg Municipal Middle School.

The book is a study of women's important and varied work in the pre-industrial society.

The book also noted that in the industrial age, much of this work was taken over by factories, machines and men.