Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Influential American social activist and educator.
Nobel-winning American political scientist and economist.
American economist known for her significant contributions to the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and as a writer for The New York Times.
American mathematician, statistician and transportation economist
During the war in that role, via practical demonstrations, pamphlets and a BBC radio broadcast called Kitchen Front, she advised Britain on how to eat well and stay healthy using the rationed, limited and sometimes unpalatable foodstuffs available.
Mary Danvers Stocks was a life-long activist. As well as an extensive academic career, she campaigned for issues from the ordination of women priests and equal pay to university education and the NHS. A successful career in broadcasting contributed to her peerage in 1966.
Ursula Kathleen Hicks was the first woman editor of a major journal, The Review of Economic Studies.
Vera Anstey was a significant presence at the London School of Economics before and after the Second World War.
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.
In 1897-1898 Ellen McArthur and Getrude Tuckwell appeared as teachers at the London School of Economics who were both linked with Girton College, Cambridge.