Eileen Louisa Powell (3 August 1913 – 19 July 1997) was an Australian trade unionist and women's activist.
[3] Powell was employed by the Australian Railways Union (ARU) from 1937, working as de facto editor of the journal, the Railroad.
The commissioner awarded the women a small pay increase but did not address the major issues of the case.
Women were at that time performing many jobs on the home front, and Powell was instrumental in the creation of the Industrial Welfare Division to oversee that process.
She was then appointed as Australia's correspondent of the International Labor Organisation Committee of Experts on Women's Work by the Curtin government, on the recommendation of Albert Monk, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.