Women In Social Work

The volunteer licensed social worker for the Women’s Shelter of Central Arkansas who grew up in a rough neighborhood in Detroit. She found that social work came naturally to her, as the other kids in her neighborhood would come to her with their problems. She had been talking with people about their issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, gang violence, and poverty since she was a young child, so it seemed natural for her to go into social work. However, she did have to fight the prejudices of her time, particularly from her father who believed that “college education is wasted on women”. She attended graduate school to obtain her master’s in social work in the 1960s, while her husband was overseas fighting in the Korean war. She worked as both