Winifred Gaskin, CCH, OD (10 May 1916 – 5 March 1977) was an Afro-Guyanese educator, journalist and civil servant who entered politics.

She taught at the St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School, eventually returning to government service in the District Commissioner's Office.

When she married Berkley Gaskin in 1939, she was barred from working as a civil servant because she was no longer single and returned to teaching, taking a post at St. Joseph, her alma mater.

[2] Later that same year, she joined the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), forerunner to the People's Progressive Party (PPP), to press for universal suffrage.

She applied for and was accepted on a British Council scholarship to work in London at The Times and the Daily Express and learn more about the newspaper business.

[1][2] When the PPP split over platform disputes and election losses in 1955, Gaskin joined the predominantly Afro-Guyanese People's National Congress (PNC).

[4] She targeted curriculum reform, focusing her programs to create textbooks with culturally relevant themes, reorganize the teaching hierarchy and qualification, and build new schools.