Emily Dorothea Pavy

Emily Dorothea Pavy CBE (19 June 1885 – 8 September 1967) was an Australian teacher, sociologist and lawyer.

While at London School of Economics, she researched the conditions of female factory workers and wrote a thesis named Welfare Work.

She completed her secondary education at the Advanced School for Girls and then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide in 1906.

[1] By 1912, she won the first Catherine Helen Spence scholarship to promote the study of sociology by women in South Australia.

She believed welfare measures could enhance individuality and living standards without reduced productivity, and advocated widely for women's issues through law, community service, and research.