Pauline Perlmutter Steinem
Pauline Perlmutter Steinem · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Suffragist and Toledo's first female elected official; delegate to the International Council of Women, advocating for women's votes and education.
1863, Poland — 1940, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Toledo, Ohio
Pauline Perlmutter Steinem is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Suffragist and Toledo's first female elected official; delegate to the International Council of Women, advocating for women's votes and education.
Pauline Perlmutter Steinem was a Jewish immigrant suffragist and Toledo's first woman elected to public office, joining its Board of Education in 1904. President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and a delegate to the International Council of Women, she advocated for women's votes, education and juvenile-court reform. She was the grandmother of feminist Gloria Steinem and later helped relatives escape the Holocaust.
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Source: Jewish Journal; Jewish Women's Archive
Suffragist and Toledo's first female elected official; delegate to the International Council of Women, advocating for women's votes and education.
Source: Jewish Journal; Jewish Women's Archive
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