Having been appointed as Melbourne’s first Director of Social Work Training in 1934, the course which continues to the present as the University of Melbourne Social Work Department, Jocelyn Hyslop spent a decade in Melbourne. She not only established social work training in Victoria but was also the major influence in the establishment of a national social work curriculum which became the basis for today’s strong profession in Australia.
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.
Poet, novelist and welfare activist
Sydney Mary Bushell made significant contributions to the field of housing in the 1920s, particularly women’s housing, with the Garden City and Town Planning Association and Women’s Pioneer Housing.
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.
Irish suffragist
Irish poet, republican, and mystic
A founder member of the Fabian Women’s group, suffragist and gymnastics teacher, she was president of the Gymnastics Teachers Suffrage Society.
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.
American journalist