Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
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Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Lin Ostrom
Nobel-winning American political scientist and economist.
Anna Schwartz
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.
Beatrice Aitchison
American mathematician, statistician and transportation economist
Marguerite Patten
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
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 Hicks
Ursula Kathleen Hicks was the first woman editor of a major journal, The Review of Economic Studies.
Dr Vera Anstey
Vera Anstey was a significant presence at the London School of Economics before and after the Second World War.
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.