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Margaret

Ann Hickey (1902–1994) was

an American attorney, journalist, women's right's activist, and active member

in government affairs between 1950 and 1975. She served as a prominent role

model for women. She dedicated her career to serving those in need. She is most

known for her roles of leadership in her service work, highlighted by her role

as a chairman of the Commission on the Status of Women in 1961. She used her

career as an attorney and journalist to help solve issues with poverty and

women's rights. Margaret A. Hickey was born on March 14, 1902 in Kansas City,

Missouri to Elizabeth Wynne and Charles Hickey. Charles Hickey, who lived

in Paris, France at the time, served on the Foreign Service as

a U.S. diplomat in Europe and the Ottoman Empire until World War I. The family bounced around several outposts in

the Ottoman Empire prior

to the war. Her family was forced to move back to the

United States in 1914 due to World War I. After making that transition, Elizabeth Wynne

worked in favor of the suffrage movement in Kansas City, which she

included her children on as well. As a young girl, she made banners for

suffragist parades. This exposure helped Margaret Hickey develop

her interest in fighting for women's rights. When Margaret was in her late teens she

actively worked for the peace movement in regards to World War I. In 1921, Hickey

dropped out of college so she could work for the Kansas City Star as a

reporter. She began working with influential business women involved in

the National

Federation of Business and Professional Women. Hickey, 20 years old

at the time, was fascinated by these prominent women and this led her to enroll

in the University of Kansas City Law School. There she pledged Kappa Beta Phi,

a legal sorority for women. She received LLB degree from Kansas City

University Law School (later University of Missouri) in 1928. After

graduating from law school, Margaret Hickey declined offers from multiple firms

in Kansas City and St. Louis to open up her own office

as a private practice. In her early career, Hickey was heavily Influenced by

fellow lawyers Florence Allen and Lena Madesin Phillips. She worked primarily in poverty law, due to the

depression of the 1920s. In 1933, Hickey established the Margaret Hickey School for Secretaries at Delmar and Skinker in

St. Louis. Her school became a long term success, which led Hickey to not

change her last name when marrying Joseph Strubinger in 1935.[4] She later gave up her private practice work as

a lawyer to focus on the school. Hickey served on the advisory committee to

the Social

Security Board in the 1930s. She then went on to served on an

advisory committee for the Office of Emergency Planning, which led to her role on the War

Manpower Commission. In 1942, she was suggested to Women's Advisory

Committee of War Manpower Commission by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. She served as a chairman to this committee

from 1942 to 1945. As chairman, she presided over a group of 14 women who

advised on the most effective use of women workers in the war effort. Hickey

was frustrated by the lack of progress they made in regards to the amount of

potential competent women had. This committee dealt with issues involved in

recruiting women into the wartime economy. In this position, she was given the

opportunity to travel the country and speaking to audiences. She argued that

women needed more college seats in order to progress. Her message to women was that in order for

there to be meaningful change, women must leave the kitchen and enter the

factory. This position made Margaret Hickey a prominent national figure and

role model for women. In August 1944 she declared that the nation's

"magnificent war production" was due to the "hidden army"

of women working for victory. In

that same year she was elected president of the National

Federation of Business and Professional Women, a group she sought

after as a young woman. She served in this position for two years, and remained

honorary president thereafter. In 1946, Hickey traveled to Paris to

work on the human rights section of the UN charter with Eleanor Roosevelt. The document the committee drafted is now

known as the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights. Also in that year, Hickey went back to

journalism and joined the Ladies Home Journal, a

successful wartime magazine stationed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[4] She received the Ben Franklin Award for

Distinguished Public Service Journalism in 1953 from the city of Philadelphia. In 1961, Hickey was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as a chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She

primarily worked on federal employment policies. In 1968, she sold her school

for secretaries, which is now named Hickey College. Over the course of her career, she was

appointed by six presidents to lead national committees, some of which are as

follows: Voluntary Foreign Aid Committee, White House Conference on Education,

National Commission on the Status of Women, Committee on Federal Employment

Policies and Practices, Citizens Council on the Status of Women. Margaret

Hickey had built up a bit of national prominence throughout her career. Because

of that she was in high demand as a public speaker. She spent her final 25

years working as a public speaker.