With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned? (a) The first award of the Nobel Peace Prize to an American woman (b) A woman’s work for social reform and world peace (c) The early development of Social Work in America (d) Contributions of educated women to American society 13.

Her reputation was gradually restored during the last years of her life. She was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and was president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

Addams joined in the movement for women’s suffrage and was a vice president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Until 1920, American women could not vote. Jane Addams was a strong champion of several other causes. When she opposed America’s involvement in World War I, however, newspaper editors called her a traitor and a fool, but she never changed her mind. In a newspaper poll that asked, “Who among our contemporaries are of the most value to the community?”, Jane Addams was rated second, after Thomas Edison. Before World War I, Addams was probably the most beloved woman in America. Hull House gave them an opportunity to use their education and it provided a training ground for careers in social work. Most of the people who worked with Addams in Hull House were well educated, middle- class women. Hull House also became a meeting place for clubs and labor unions. Addams and her staff gave classes in English literacy, art, and other subjects. Hull House provided a day care center for children of working mothers, a community kitchen, and visiting nurses. Inspired by Toynbee Hall, Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates Starr, opened Hull House in a neighborhood of slums in Chiacago in 1899. While she was in London, she visited a ‘settlement house’ called Toynbee Hall. In the 1880s Jane Addams travelled to Europe. Her commitment to improving the lives of those around her led her to work for social reform and world peace. She was one of a small number of women in her generation to graduate from college. Jane Addams was born in 1860, into a wealthy family. However, Addams is best known as the founder of Hull House. The first American woman to win this prize was Jane Addams, in 1931. In fact, her work inspired the creation of the Prize. Bissmillah reading (42, 25, 52, 37) The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually and the first woman to win this prize was Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner in 1905.

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