Gertrude Rosenblum, Lady Williams CBE (1897–1983) was an economist and social strategist whose research and writing impacted on the foundation and development of the Welfare State in the United Kingdom from the 1940s.
[4][5] There was nearly a decade-long gap between Williams' 1927 book and the publication of The State and the Standard of Living, published by P.S.
"[8] Women and Work was published as part of the New Democracy series which contained 13 pictorial charts (now infographics) produced by Otto Neurath's Isotype Institute to make the statistics she provided more intelligible.
[9] Williams’ social mapping sits in a tradition begun by Charles Booth and Beatrice Webb.
[18] Their marriage was described as "affectionate and mutually supportive" and was recorded as such in Williams's biography of her husband, W.E.