Margaret Ann Hickey (March 14, 1902 – December 7, 1994) was an American attorney, journalist, women's right's activist, and active member in government affairs between 1950 and 1975.

Charles Hickey, who lived in Paris, France, at the time, served on the Foreign Service as a U.S. diplomat in Europe and the Ottoman Empire until World War I.

After making that transition, Elizabeth Wynne worked in favor of the suffrage movement in Kansas City, which she included her children on as well.

Hickey, 20 years old at the time, was fascinated by these prominent women and this led her to enroll in the University of Kansas City Law School.

[3] After graduating from law school, Margaret Hickey declined offers from multiple firms in Kansas City and St. Louis to open up her own office as a private practice.

In her early career, Hickey was heavily Influenced by fellow lawyers Florence E. Allen and Lena Madesin Phillips.

Her school became a long term success, which led Hickey to not change her last name when marrying Joseph Strubinger in 1935.

She then went on to serve on an advisory committee for the Office of Emergency Planning, which led to her role on the War Manpower Commission.

[5] In 1942, she was suggested to Women's Advisory Committee of War Manpower Commission by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.

[6] In August 1944 she declared that the nation's "magnificent war production" was due to the "hidden army" of women working for victory.

[7] That same year she was elected president of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, a group she sought after as a young woman.

In 1961, Hickey was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as a chairman of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.