Alice Cook American National Biographical Article and Other Material, February 12, 1988- October 2013

Alice Hanson Cook (1908- 1998) started off as a social worker in Indianapolis before becoming an organizer, educator, a post-war advisor to the U.S. occupied zone in Germany, and on the faculty of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women in Industry. As a single working mother herself, she improved the lives of working women by researching, writing, and teaching about equal opportunity, equal pay, part-time work, childcare, and unions in many countries. Cook had been working at the Wellesley Center before O’Farrell joined and was the person that advised O’Farrell to learn how to use a computer. While Cook did not work on issues of occupational segregation and integrating women into the blue-collar skilled jobs, she was supportive of O’Farrell’s work, and was known to give advice and guidance. Included in this subseries are articles, a biography, a copy of her book, obituaries, and other documents.