• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: IMP0290

Cranley, Alison Hilma Barbara

  • MBE
  • Occupation Educator

Summary

Hilma Cranley was an active member of the Victorian Teachers’ Union throughout her teaching career, attaining the position of female vice-president in 1961. A leading personality in the struggle for equal pay and equal opportunity for women teachers in Victoria, she became the first woman chairman of the Council of Adult Education. In recognition of her services to education she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1970.

Published resources

  • Book Section
    • Equal opportunity for women teachers; women in the Victorian Teaching Service, 1950-1981., Towns, Deborah, 1982
  • Site Exhibition
  • Edited Book
    • Worth her Salt: Women at Work in Australia, Bevege, Margaret, James, Margaret and Schute, Carmel, 1982
  • Resource

Related entries


  • Member
    • Victorian Teachers' Union (1926 - 1990)