Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
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Beatrice Serota
British politician and social reformer
Eileen Younghusband
Eileen Younghusband’s career in social work education began in the 1930s and continued till her death in 1981.
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mary Carpenter
English philanthropist and author active in working for the benefit of orphaned or neglected children.
Maud Reeves
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
Anne Ward
Possibly her most notable achievement was to establish, almost single-handedly, a national organisation which would spearhead significant social and political reforms in New Zealand.
Kate Sheppard
New Zealand suffragist
Louisa Lee Schuyler
American philanthropic social worker