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 Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Harriet Martineau
English author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American speaker and writer
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Ophelia Settle Egypt
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.
Cora Baldock
During her 22 years at Murdoch University, Cora Baldock earned a personal chair as professor of sociology in 1993. She was both the university’s first female professor and its first professor of sociology.