Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.

The Center is named after the Reverend Doctor Anna Howard Shaw a Methodist minister medical doctor and suffragist. During her time in medical school Shaw became an outspoken advocate of political rights for women. At the age of twenty-three Shaw was invited by Dr.

She was also a physician and the first ordained female Methodist minister in the United States.