ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the main campaigns undertaken by politically active and reform-minded women to improve welfare and health services for the mass of women. It provides cameo biographies of four exemplary women, Eglantyne Jebb, Margaret McMillan, Eleanor Rathbone and Marie Stopes. They all believed that poverty was gendered in its impact: it affected women and men differently, and within families women typically bore the brunt of poverty. Jebb, McMillan, Rathbone and Stopes attempted to alleviate women’s poverty in their complementary campaigns.
