Dr. S. Josephine Baker became the first director of the New York City Bureau of Child Hygiene, the first such bureau in the country, in 1908. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a doctorate in public health from the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College.
Hazel Wolf was well known as an environmentalist and social activist.
In 1926, Bertha Landes was the first woman to be elected as mayor in part of a major U.S. city; Seattle. She brought a vision to clean up the corrupted city streets, and improve the public services.
American suffragist, abolitionist and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts
New Zealand temperance worker and suffragist
American journalist, philanthropist, civil rights activist, and art patron.
New Zealand teacher, industrial school matron and manager and community leader
New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist and social reformer
New Zealand editor, feminist, temperance and welfare worker
New Zealand suffragist and temperance campaigner