Pauline Goldmark

Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (February 21, 1874 – October 18, 1962) was an American social reformer, focused on equal pay and the health aspects of women's work.

Early life Pauline Dorothea Goldmark was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Joseph Goldmark and Regina (née Wehle) Goldmark. Her father was a doctor and a chemist; both parents were Jewish immigrants from central Europe. Goldmark earned a degree in biology at Bryn Mawr College in 1896, and pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. Her younger sister was labor reformer Josephine Clara Goldmark. Her brothers-in-law included Felix Adler and Louis Brandeis. Her uncle Karl Goldmark was a composer in Vienna, and her cousin Rubin Goldmark was a composer in New York City.

Career Goldmark was an executive of the Consumers' League of New York, and served on the National Consumers League's board for forty years. She was associate director of the New York School of Philanthropy, and served on the New York State Industrial Board, the New York State Factory Investigating Commission. During World War I she was secretary of the United States Department of Labor's Commission on Women in Industry, she was manager of the Women's Service Section, United States Railway Administration. She was assistant director of research at the Russell Sage Foundation, and consulted on women's working conditions for AT&T after 1919. She and Mary Hopkins also compiled a poetry collection, The Gypsy Trail: An Anthology for Campers (1914).

Personal life Pauline Goldmark was a close friend and correspondent of William James. Related family papers are in the Goldmark Family Collection, Center for Jewish History.