Marion Talbot

thumb|Marion Talbot in 1911 Marion Talbot (July 31, 1858 – October 20, 1948) was an American professor and Dean of Women at the University of Chicago. From 1895 to 1897 she was the president of the American Association of University Women, which she co-founded in 1881. Quotes The changes which have taken place during the 19th century past century in the activities and position of women are the object of an interest which is widespread. These changes have been so striking that the period during which they occurred is frequently called the "woman's century." Nor is the movement a completed one; there is every reason to believe that equally marked changes will take place in the 20th century century to come. The time has passed when women were on the whole content to drift with the current of life and accept without question or demur the lot which tradition, custom, and public opinion might dictate. The little band of leaders who did pioneer work in the last century in claiming and making new opportunities for women did brave service: in no respect did they do better service than in showing the value of ideals as a positive social force. The record of their lives will always be a source of courage to increasing numbers of women who will be eager to take an active part in controlling and directing the stream of women's activities. The Education of Women 1910 University of Chicago Press https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Education_of_Women.html?id=Xx03AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 3 (255 pages; text at archive.org) ... except in some of the women's colleges where the opportunities for research are limited and the salaries notably low, women are not considered eligible for chairs in the sciences ... Until women are more generally given an equal chance with men in academic recognition and remuneration, it is futile to attempt to determine, in terms of Standard normal table statistical tables or even of scientific reputation or eminence, how much "they are able to do for the advancement of science." Eminence of Women in Science 16 December 1910 32 833 866 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.32.833.866.a 10.1126/science.32.833.866.a (reply to an article by James McKeen Cattell J. McKeen Cattell) Quotes about Marion Talbot Miss Talbot divides her book into three parts. Part I describes the changes in women's activities—industrial, educational, civic, philanthropic, domestic, and social—during the last hundred years. Part II compares the educational machinery of about fifty years ago with that of today, citing as exampels the past and the present curricula of the Boston and Chicago public schools, of Vassar College, and of the University of Wisconsin, in order to show how far education has adapted itself to these changes. Part III deals with the present collegiate education of women, pointing out its characteristics, limitations, and possible modifications in the light of modern social, economic, and psychological knowledge. Elizabeth Kemper Adams, joint review of The Education of Women by Marion Talbot and Vocations for the Trained Woman by Agnes F. Perkins School Review 18 645–648 9 November 1910 https://doi.org/10.1086/435651 10.1086/435651 (quote from p. 645; School Review, renamed in 1979 as American Journal of Education) External links Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey & Harvey, Joy Dorothy The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z Taylor & Francis 2000 0415920388 Talbot, Marion https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Biographical_Dictionary_of_Women_in.html?id=LTSYePZvSXYC&pg=PA1262 1262–1263 Category:1858 births Category:1948 deaths Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Economists from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:People from Boston Category:Social scientists from the United States Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:University of Chicago faculty Category:Science authors from the United States Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 19th century