Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstraße 22
14195 Berlin
E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Ph.D. |
Prename: | Gertrude Shorb |
Surname: | Martin |
Profession: | Educationalist |
Birthday: | 10/21/1869 |
Place of birth: | Decatur, IL |
Education: | 1894 Ph.D. Michigan; 1900 Ph.D. Cornell |
Career: | 1894–96 teacher at a public school; 1909–16 university adviser of women, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Memberships: | 1913–21 Board of Education, Ithaca; 1916–22 secretary general, Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA), later of American Association of University Women (AAUW); 1922–24 secretary general, Women’s Foundation for Health |
Biographical literature: | J.M. Cattell (ed.), *Leaders in Education* (New York: The Science Press, 1932); Jo Ann Fley, “Gertrude S. Martin: Defining Ideals and Bridging Generations,” *Journal of the NAWDAC* 42 (1979), no. 3: 43–6 |
Major works: | “The Education of Women and Sex Equality,” *Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science* 56 (1914): 38–46 |