Editing Clara Collet (section)

{{short description|British academic}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Clara Collet
| birth_date         = 10 September 1860
| death_date         = 3 August 1948 (aged 87)
| nationality        = British
| occupation         = Economist, civil servant
}}
'''Clara Collet''' (10 September 1860 – 3 August 1948)<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=42336|title=Collet, Clara Elizabeth|first=David|last=Doughan}}</ref><ref>'McDonald, Deborah, 'Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman', Woburn Press 2004 {{ISBN|978-0-7130-4060-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chronology|url=http://www.clara-collet.co.uk/chronology.htm|publisher=Clara-Collet.co.uk|access-date=11 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204510/http://www.clara-collet.co.uk/chronology.htm|archive-date=23 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> was a British economist and civil servant. She was one of the first women graduates from the [[University of London]] and was pivotal in many reforms which greatly improved working conditions and pay for women during the early part of the twentieth century. She is also noted for the collection of statistical and descriptive evidence on the life of working women and poor people in London and elsewhere in England.