Helen Sumner Woodbury
American economist, academic, historian and public official.
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- Bachelors Economics Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury was an American economist, academic, historian and public official. Biography Woodbury was born Helen Laura Sumner on 12 March 1876 to the district attorney and later Colorado judge George True Sumner and Katherine Eudora Marsh in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Woodbury attended Wellesley College where she got her undergraduate degree in 1898 before going on to be one of the first women to earn a PhD in economics, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1908 with her thesis, "The Labor Movement in America, 1827–1837" Woodbury was influenced by her professors, including Katharine Coman and Emily Greene Balch in her undergraduate years as well as Richard T. Ely and John Commons in her postgraduate career. She focused on labour economics and suffrage. She published her 2-year investigation into women's suffrage in Colorado as "Equal Suffrage" in 1909 as well as working on Commons' "Trade Unionism and Labor Problems" and for his American Bureau of Industrial Research. Woodbury was also associate editor on Commons' "A Documentary History of American Industrial Society". Her work and investigations into suffrage was the core of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' "History of Women in Industry in the United States".
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