Grace Hartman (née Fulcher; July 14, 1918 – December 18, 1993) was a Canadian labour union activist, whose 1975 election to the presidency of the Canadian Union of Public Employees made her the first woman in North America to lead a major labour union.
As a secretary for the Township of North York, Ontario, she was a member of NUPE Local 373.
[citation needed] Hartman was a prominent participant in the feminist movement, and a strong advocate for gender pay equity.
[1] She joined the steering committee of the Committee for the Equality of Women in Canada in 1966, which successfully lobbied the Canadian government to establish the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada.
In 1968, Hartman was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women.