Charles was a British statistician, demographer and feminist who started her work looking at statistics of birth-time to population predictions. Importantly, this trailblazer was among the first statisticians to challenge eugenics. After working in Canada from 1940-46 for the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, now Statistics Canada, she returned to join her husband in Birmingham where she worked for the City Council, establishing a database of maternity and child welfare records and using them to investigate the timing of birth.
Charles’ most impactful work was that as a demographer for the World Health Organisation up until 1962.
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Women In Statistics through History 