Marking Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in March 2016, LSE Women: making history was a celebration of #LSEwomen past, present and future. Explore the rich history of women at LSE and in the wider world and get involved using #LSEwomen.
Blogs
Be inspired by the world of women at LSE and beyond, discover our archives and special collections – and some hidden secrets of LSE’s past.
EDI at LSE
Creating a culture of continuous improvement: an interview with Professor Julia Black
Professor Julia Black
‘I don’t think we can afford to leave gender to the gender theorists’: an interview with Aiko Holvikivi
Aiko Holvikivi
Stress, pressures and expectations at work: an interview with Professor Jennifer Brown
Professor Jennifer Brown
LSE History
The ‘hidden’ women of LSE
Adapted from her public lecture, Mary Evans charts the history of women at LSE during the early years of the School, and changing attitudes towards women in both higher education and wider society.
Beatrice Webb, c1875
Ellen Marianne Leonard – President of the Students’ Union, 1907
Ellen Marianne Leonard (1866-1953) was a 41 year old historian who had been connected to LSE since 1896. For Sue Donnelly, writing about Ellen’s life has illustrated the difficulties of tracing the careers of women academics.
LSE student group c1910
Audrey Richards – a career in Anthropology
Unprejudiced, unshockable, in many ways unconventional – Adam Kuper on Audrey Richards, one of the first woman anthropologists in Africa in the 1930s.
Audrey Richards
“A decided bent for economic history” – Margaret Gowing, historian, civil servant and academic
In a 1988 letter to LSE Director I G Patel, Gowing credited LSE for her interest in history – previously she had thought it “a tedious, dynastic and bellicose business”.
Margaret Gowing as a student
Baroness Stocks – economist, activist
Meet Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks (1891-1975), an influential and inspirational LSE alumna, teacher, economist and activist in Baroness Stocks by Clara Cook.
Mary Danvers Stocks, Baroness Stocks
Christian Mactaggart – “Deputy Director, hostess, accountant and lady of all work”
Have you heard of Christian Mactaggart? Find out how she influenced early LSE in LSE’s “Deputy director, hostess, accountant, and lady of all work” – Christian Scipio Mactaggart, 1861-1943 by Sue Donnelly.
First LSE hockey team, 1911 – does this picture feature Christian Mactaggart?
LSE Careers
Sarah Freytag-Traut – Account Executive, Weber Shandwick France
The LSE Careers blog Graduate Profile of the Week is Sarah Freytag-Traut, MSc Politics and Communication 2011.
Sarah Freytag-Traut
Volunteering: women’s rights charities
Do you want to be the next #LSEwomen making history? Looking for a volunteering role? The LSE Volunteer Centre has put together a list of volunteering roles working with women’s charities currently live on CareerHub.
LSE graduates
Claire Chaumont – Research Manager, National Institute of Public Health (Mexico)
The LSE Careers blog Graduate Profile of the Week is Claire Chaumont, MSc Health Policy, Planning and Financing 2011.
Claire Chaumont
Career paths of LSE women over the years
Politicians, academics, journalists and entrepreneurs: take inspiration from high profile women that have done great things after their studies at LSE.
LSE Generate award winner Bonnie Chiu
LSE women in entrepreneurship
Find out how Generate, LSE’s entrepreneurship programme, has supported a strong community of female entrepreneurs and get 8 top tips from LSE alumna Milena Bottero in Women in entrepreneurship on the LSE Careers blog.
Milena Bottero at a recent LSE Generate event
LSE Library
Beatrice Potter, Clara Collet and Charles Booth’s Survey of London
At LSE, we’re fortunate to have a fascinating collection of material from what is often referred to as the Charles Booth Survey of London. Indy Bhullar shares the story of two women behind the collection, LSE founder Beatrice Potter (Webb) and Clara Collet.
Beatrice Potter Webb
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lucy Deane and the Boer War
LSE Library holds the diaries of Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Lucy Deane. Gillian Murphy explores their accounts and photographs of their investigations at the Boer camps.
Boer camp, 1901
A Suffrage album for International Women’s Day
At LSE Library we hold The Women’s Library collection, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. This amazing collection details the story of many campaigns and fights for equality, with its foundations firmly rooted in the British Suffrage movement. Eleanor Payne chooses her favourite images from The Women’s Library Flickr collection.
Constance Lytton and others in the ‘Prison to Citizenship’ pageant, 1911
Enid Rosser Locket – early female UK barrister
Kate Higgins explores The Women’s Library archive and shares the unpublished memoir of the early female barrister and LSE student 1920-21 Enid Rossiter Locket.
Enid Rosser Locket
Curating Women, Peace and Equality
Gillian Murphy discusses being an exhibition curator and picks out some of her favourite items, including the Amelia Scott archive, in Curating Women, Peace and Equality.
Amelia Scott
Events
Women, Peace and Equality exhibition
The LSE Library’s spring public exhibition was held in conjunction with the Centre for Women, Peace and Security.
After Beatrice: the hidden women in LSE’s history
This public talk by LSE Centennial Professor Mary Evans, and chaired by Pro-Director of Research Julia Black, explored influential women in LSE’s history and the ‘woman question’ at LSE.
Date: Thursday 24 March 2016, 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Mary Evans
Chair: Professor Julia Black
Beatrice Webb
LSE research and expertise
LSE Review of Books
Check out the LSE Review of Books blog’s special “in focus” section for reviews of book by LSE women including Judy Wajcman, Lilie Chouliaraki and Eileen Barker.
LSE Impact blog: women in academia series
The hugely popular LSE Impact blog has pulled together a series of material on the everyday reality of systemic gender bias in the academic workplace.
LSE research impact
Helping NHS patients make the optimal hospital choice led by Barbara Fasolo
Exposing the impact of counter-terrorism on civil societies and aid led by Jude Howell
Making EU policymaking accessible and transparent led by Sara Hagemann
Sara Hagemann, Jude Howell and Barbara Fasolo
LSE resources
If you’re interested in issues relating to women and gender then LSE has a number of specialist resources for researchers and prospective students:
Centre for Women, Peace and Security
LSE Communications
LSE Women: making history is led by LSE’s Communications Division. LSE Communications works with the whole LSE community to increase the impact of the School and its work. If you would like to get involved with this campaign please contact Hayley Reed at h.reed@lse.ac.uk. This campaign has been supported by the LSE Annual Fund.
