Society of Woman Geographers

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The Society of Woman Geographers was established in 1925 at a time when women were excluded from membership in most professional organizations. Among its ten founders were Harriet Chalmers Adams, Marguerite Harrison, Blair Niles, Gertrude Shelby, and Gertrude Emerson Sen. The society presently has approximately 500 members. Groups are located in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Florida.

Adams was made the society's first president in December 1925, a post which she held until 1933. In 1930, the society presented its first medal to Amelia Earhart.

[edit] Further reading

• Women of the Four Winds, The Adventures of Four of America's First Women Explorers, by Elizabeth Fagg Olds, Houghton Mifflin, 1985

[edit] External links

• Society of Woman Geographers

[edit] Sources

• Anema, Durlynn. Harriet Chalmers Adams: Adventurer and Explorer. Aurora, Colorado: National Writers Press, 2004.