Louise Marion Bosworth (July 11, 1881 – August 6, 1982) was an American researcher at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) who extensively surveyed working women in order to learn about their working and living conditions.
Biography Bosworth was born in Elgin, Illinois, the daughter of Alfred Bosworth and Eleanora Wheeler Bosworth. Her father was a bank president.Papers of Louise Marion Bosworth, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1907.Wellesley College, Legenda (1907 yearbook): 34. After college she was a research fellow at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union in Boston. She studied the income and budget of working women, finding no evidence for myths about young women's frivolous spending.
Bosworth died on August 6, 1982, at the age of 101, in Connecticut. Her papers are at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.
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