Mary Nelson Winslow

Mary Nelson Winslow was born on September 22, 1887, to Francis Winslow and Harriet Livingston Patterson.{{cite web|title=Mary Nelson Winslow|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=84556014|publisher=Find A Grave|accessdate=12 September 2015|quote=Used solely for birth/death dates on photograph of tombstone}} On her mother's side, she descended of Carlile Pollock Patterson and the Livingston{{cite book|last=Sisson|first=Edward Hawkins|title=America the Great|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BL2AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3123|date=22 June 2014|publisher=Edward Sisson|id=GGKEY:0T5QX14Q22E|page=3123}} family, which married into the Jay family and were some of the founding families of the United States.{{cite news|title=Bequest of $500 Is Made to Christ Church|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209966/the_morning_new_bernian/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=The Morning New Bernian|date=14 August 1917|location=New Bern, North Carolina|page=6}}

Winslow attended the New York School of Social Work{{cite web|title=Winslow, Mary N. (Mary Nelson)|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6pz84h3|website=Social Archive|publisher=Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC)|accessdate=12 September 2015|location=University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia}} and by 1920 she was working in the government service as an industrial agent for the US Department of Labor in the Women's Bureau.{{cite news|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary N.|title=Women in Government Service|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209560/the_wichita_daily_eagle/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=The Wichita Daily Eagle|date=26 December 1920|location=Wichita, Kansas|page=20|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}} She had worked her way up to director and editor of exhibits by 1923{{cite news|title=Women Confer on Their Sex in Industry|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209584/belvidere_daily_republican/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=Belvidere Daily Republican|date=23 January 1923|location=Belvidere, Illinois|page=1|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}} and by 1924 was conducting studies on the nature of women in the labor force, including the number of married women employed outside the home,{{cite news|title=Working Women|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209744/working_women_the_portsmouth_herald/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=The Portsmouth Herald|date=25 March 1924|location=Portsmouth, New Hampshire|page=4|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}} the effect of women working on the family,{{cite news|title=Less Domestic Strife in Homes Where Wives Are Employed|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209793/the_evening_news/|accessdate=12 September 2015|agency=United Press|publisher=The Evening News|date=20 January 1926|location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania|page=1}} and the non-acceptance of working wives by employers.{{cite news|last1=Webster|first1=Edna Robb|title=Working Wives Not Wanted|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209690/working_wives_not_wanted_edna_robb/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=Times Herald|date=7 November 1929|location=Olean, New York|page=14}} Between 1929 and 1941, she also served as legislative representative in Washington, D.C., for the National Women's Trade Union League{{cite web|title=Introduction: Papers of the Women's Trade Union League and Its Principal Leaders|url=http://microformguides.gale.com/Data/Introductions/30430FM.htm|website=Microform Guides Gale|publisher=Gale Cengage Learning|accessdate=12 September 2015}} and then served on its executive board.{{cite news|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary N.|title=Women's Groups United for Fight (pt 1)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209713/the_anniston_star/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=The Anniston Star|date=23 January 1945|location=Anniston, Alabama|page=4|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}} continued in {{cite news|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary N.|title=Women's Groups United for Fight (pt 2)|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3209730/the_anniston_star/|accessdate=12 September 2015|publisher=The Anniston Star|date=23 January 1945|location=Anniston, Alabama|page=5|via = Newspapers.com}} {{open access}} During that same time, Winslow was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the United States' representative to the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM). In a large part, her nomination was used by FDR to oust Doris Stevens from the CIM and transform the organization from a quasi-autonomous advisory group into a subsidiary commission of the Pan American Union. Winslow was appointed the US's official representative at the 1938 Conference of the Pan-American States, held in Lima, Peru{{cite book|last1=Bredbenner|first1=Candice Lewis|title=A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship|date=1998|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=978-0-520-20650-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/nationalityofher0001bred/page/246 246]–247| url=https://archive.org/details/nationalityofher0001bred|url-access=registration|accessdate=13 July 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Pfeffer|first1=Paula F.|title=Eleanor Roosevelt and the National and World Woman's Parties|url=http://harvey.binghamton.edu/~hist266/era/eleanor.htm|website=Harvey Binghamton|publisher=The Historian|accessdate=12 September 2015|date=1996}} and served on the CIM until 1944. She then became an adviser on women's affairs to Nelson Rockefeller.

She died on May 2, 1952, in Washington, D.C., and her papers were donated by her older sister Harriet Winslow to Radcliffe College.{{cite web|title=Winslow, Mary N. (Mary Nelson). Papers, 1923-1951|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00975|website=Online Archival Search Information System|publisher=Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America|accessdate=12 September 2015|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}

• {{cite book|last1=Winslow|first1= Mary Nelson|last2=Peterson|first2=Agnes Lydia|last3=Best|first3=Ethel Lombard|last4=Gordon|first4=Mildred J.|title=Home work in Bridgeport, Connecticut: December, 1919|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CBxqKHt9BhEC|year=1920|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary Nelson |last2=Peterson|first2=Agnes Lydia|last3=Best|first3=Ethel Lombard|last4=Bryan|first4=Helen|last5=Campbell|first5=Agnes Horne|title=Hours and conditions of work for women in industry in Virginia: March, 1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFnOk4i0WloC|year=1920|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary Nelson |title=Women's Wages in Kansas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWMacgAACAAJ|year=1921|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary Nelson|title=Health Problems of Women in Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMdtrgEACAAJ|year=1921|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary Nelson|title=Women Street Car Conductors and Ticket Agents|url=https://archive.org/details/womenstreetcarc00bestgoog|year=1921|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary N.|title=Some effects of legislation limiting hours of work for women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IcMLDC8l0LwC|year=1921|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite journal|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary N.|title=Medians of Women's Earnings in Four States|journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association|date=March 1922|volume=18|issue=137|pages=106–108|jstor=2277476|publisher=American Statistical Association|location=Boston, Massachusetts|doi=10.2307/2277476}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary Nelson|title=The share of wage-earning women in family support|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz80hkskyxAC|year=1923|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary Nelson|last2=Robinson|first2=Mary Viola|title=Radio Talks on Women in Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3ZFrgEACAAJ|year=1924|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary Nelson|title=Married Women in Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xfQ0QwAACAAJ|year=1924|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last=Winslow|first=Mary Nelson |title=Summary: the effects of labor legislation on the employment opportunities of women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0q_erBRR1n4C|year=1928|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last1=Winslow|first1=Mary Nelson|last2=Speek|first2=Frances Valiant|last3=Speek|first3=Peter Alexander|title=Variations in Employment Trends of Women and Men|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pjS0MAEACAAJ|year=1930|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC}}
• {{cite book|last1=Anderson|first1=Mary |last2=Winslow|first2=Mary N. |title=Woman at Work: The Autobiography of Mary Anderson as told to Mary N. Winslow|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/login.cgi|year=1951|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |url-access=subscription |via=Project MUSE}}

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• [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00975 Winslow, Mary N. (Mary Nelson). Papers, 1923-1951]
• [https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Mary+N+Winslow&fq=ap%3A%22winslow%2C+mary+nelson%22&dblist=638&qt=sort&se=yr&sd=asc&qt=sort_yr_asc WorldCat Selected works]

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