Jane Addams was a sociologist, suffragist, and social justice worker during the Progressive Era. Thanks to her concern for and advocacy on behalf of mothers and children, she is widely considered the mother of social work. She was also the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
