American social-settlement worker, resident at Hull House and Henry Street Settlement. First woman chief factory inspector (Illinois, 1893).

Julia Clifford Lathrop 1858-1932

Social and settlement worker. Member, Illinois State Board of Charities, 1893-1909. First woman appointed by the President as chief of a Federal bureau, the U. S. Children's Bureau (1918). Mary Lyon 1797-1849

Organized trustees and promoters and raised funds to establish a permanent endowed college for women on the same conditions as for men and with fixed standards of work; opened it in 1837. Mary McDowell 1854-1936

Leader in the establishment of the University of Chicago Settlement House (1894); was its first director and headed it for many years. Initiator of first comprehensive survey of employment of women and children in industry. Active in many organizations and social reforms.

Lucretia Mott 1793-1880

Associated with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in calling first woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls, 1848. Active in antislavery movement.

A pioneer medical woman. Established Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia (1861). Professor from 1853 on, and in 1866 the first dean of Female Medical College of Pennsylvania. Active in antislavery and temperance movements.

Mrs. Raymond Robins 1869-1945

Social economist. As president, convened the International Congress of Working Women in Vienna, 1923. Associated with many organizations defending and promoting the interests of working

women.

Anna Howard Shaw, M. D. 1847-1919

Also licensed in Methodist ministry. Lecturer and advocate of woman suffrage. Chairman of Woman's Committee of Council of National Defense, World War I.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902

American woman suffrage leader. Organizer, convention for woman's rights at Seneca Falls. First president, National Woman Suffrage Association.

Organizer of American Woman Suffrage Association. Made first speech on woman's rights in her brother's church at Gardner, Mass. Harriet (Beecher) Stowe 1811-96

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, one of the most powerful antislavery influences.

Dr. M. Carey Thomas 1857-1935

Educator. President, Bryn Mawr College, 1894-1922. Founder of first school on a college campus for workers in industry. Lillian D. Wald 1867-1940

Social worker. Founder of Henry Street Settlement, New York. Originator of idea of Federal Children's Bureau. Member of many organizations connected with public health and welfare, national and international.

Angelina Grimke Weld1

She and her sister Sarah were active in the suffrage and abolition movements. Daughters of a superior court judge in South Carolina, in 1828, as young women in their early twenties, they sold their slaves and moved North. Angelina lectured widely and Sarah published a book replying to the clergy's arguments for slavery and the subjection of women.

Phillis Wheatley 1753-84

Negro poetess. Brought from Africa as a child, she became a member of a Boston family who responded to her extraordinary intelligence by personally tutoring her and affording her opportunity for travel. Her education was remarkable among women of her time. Her place in the history of American literature, though not a large one, is secure.

Emma C. (Hart) Willard 1787-1870

Pioneer in women's education. Established in 1819 the first school to which a State government contributed money, the first girl's school to teach higher mathematics. Wrote a book on circulation of the blood.

Dr. Mary E. Woolley 1863-1947

Educator. President, Mount Holyoke College, 1900-1937. Active in movements for world peace. Full delegate from the United States to World Conference on Disarmament, 1932.

1 Dates of birth and death not available.

Appendix I

CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE

Over 200 people attended the working sessions of the conference (exclusive of speakers, Labor Department and other Federal agency staff, and attendants who failed to register). They came from 25 States, the District of Columbia, and 2-delegates to the U. N. Commission on Status of Women-from India and Syria. The President of the Inter-American Commission of Women participated, and two members of the International Labor Office-one of them from the Washington and one from the Geneva, Switzerland office-attended, and, on one day, the cultural attachés from four of the embassies.

The representative distribution of the delegates and conference guests was in fact one of the significant things about the conference. Apart from those already mentioned, they came as representatives of national women's organizations, civic and professional groups, labor unions, administrators of women's State labor laws, management and personnel groups, working members of the press and radio, and as individuals specially concerned with the problems and achievements of women who have cooperated in the work of the Women's Bureau.

The following is a list of the organizations invited: Advertising Federation of America.

Altrusa International.

Amalgamated Clothing Wokers of America-CIO.

American Association of Industrial Nurses.

American Association of Social Workers.