She became involved with many literacy organizations, served on literacy committees and chaired many reading organizations.

She chaired the All Party Parliamentary Group on Eye Health.

She chaired the Institute's board until her death in 1993.

Abbott pioneered the process of incorporating sociological data relating to child labor, juvenile delinquency, dependency and statistics into the lawmaking process ; she spent much of her time as a political lobbyist for social issues in Washington, D. C .. She was associated with the Social Security Administration from 1934 until her death in 1939 ; during that time period, Abbott helped in the drafting of the Social Security Act and chaired several government committees on child welfare and social issues.

She served as a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and chaired the Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan's Department of Far Eastern Art ; she is credited with the idea for a Chinese garden courtyard, the Astor Court, in the Metropolitan.

She also co-founded and chaired the Canadian Environment Educational Foundation, and established the Winter Garden Show at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair.

She also was a member of the Reform Party Expansion Committee, and she chaired the Reform Party Task Force on the Reform of Social Programs.

She has chaired the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, the Utah State Housing Coordinating Committee, the Governor's Commission on Child Care, and the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors.

In 1995, Burjanadze was elected to the Parliament of Georgia for the Union of Citizens of Georgia ( UCG ) then chaired by the President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze and supported financially by her father Anzor Burjanadze, a wealthy businessman .. She first chaired the Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional Law from 1998 to 1999, and the Parliamentary Committee for International Relations from 2000 to 2001.

She is the founding chairman of the Telecoms Ombudsman Council, and chaired Ofcom ’ s Consumer Panel from its inception in 2003 to December 2007.

She founded the government funded Gender and Criminal Justice Forum at the Fawcett Society and chaired it's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System.

She was one of the three Cabinet Ministers responsible for the Criminal Justice system and had specific responsibility for fraud policy and the National Fraud Authority and chaired the Inter-Ministerial Group responsible for the improvement of the response to fraud and e-crime.

She also chaired the Rules Committee.

She chaired the taskforce on parks and urban green spaces.

She has chaired the Clothing, Textiles & Footwear Group ( APPG ) since July 1999, and been a member of the Education & Skills Select Committee ( from 1997 – 2001 ).

She was a junior environment minister in the 1980s and chaired select committees in the 1990s.

She chaired the Social Enterprise Coalition until January 2008, when she was appointed a junior minister of the House of Lords.

She not only organized but also chaired the University Women Association.

She chaired the West Highland Health Services Solutions Group.

She chaired the Health Authority in Hertfordshire from 1998 to 2001, and her children's school governing body, and became a Vice President of the National Council for One Parent Families.

She chaired concurrently the Labour Party Departmental Committee on International Development and the Labour Group in the UK Delegation to the Council of Europe, both from 1997 to 2001.

She chaired this group with Victorian Senator Mitch Fifield.

She also chaired the Public Accounts and Audit Committee.

She is the symbol of the United States Women's Navy and was depicted on their Unit Crest.

She is best remembered as a leader in the fight for women's right to vote, as a co-editor of the radical arts and politics magazine The Liberator, and as a co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

She was not as active as her sister, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, though Anderson became a member of the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage in 1889.

She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971.

She played first board on the U. S. Women's team in the 38th Chess Olympiad, when the U. S. team scored a bronze medal.

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.

She established the Women's Health and Wellness Initiative and became involved with two major campaigns.

She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.

She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President.

She also heads the Women's Liberation front in Id.

She remained extremely popular among many ANC supporters, and, in December 1993 and April 1997, she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, though she withdrew her candidacy for ANC Deputy President at the movement's Mafikeng conference in December 1997.

She was inducted into the U. S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 1983, honored with the National Sports Award in 1993, and inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

She later became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ( the NUWSS ), a position she held from 1890 until 1919.

She completed the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery ( MBBS ) in 1956 at the University of Sydney, residing at The Women's College from 1950 to 1955.

She is actively involved in groups and clubs, is a political activist and a supporter of Women's Liberation.

She founded the gender unit at the International Centre for Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ) in Kathmandu and was a founding Board Member of the Women's Environment & Development Organization ( WEDO )

She had called a meeting of female pilots in 1929 following the Women's Air Derby.

She was also a member of American Women's Voluntary Services.

" She donated her share of the prize money to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

She was also a Board member of the Independent Women's Forum.

She has won eight LPGA events with her best finish in a major championship second place at the 2001 Women's British Open.

She is currently writing " Berlin Notes ," based on a six month sabbatical visit to that city ( the first chapter was a cover feature in Prairie Fire Fall 2003 ), and co-editing two volumes of proceedings from the conference / festival, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry ( University of Windsor, 2001 ), with Barbara Godard, of York University.

She was also appointed an assistant coach of the Global Metals Bulleen Boomers in the Women's National Basketball League.

She was named the Women's International Player of The Year 1994 and 1996

She has been ranked World No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association on three separate occasions.