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Personal Life addition:
Mary Jean Bowman was born to mother Mary K. Kauffman and father Harold Martin Bowman on October 17th, 1908 in New York City. She was raised in Newton Center, Massachusetts. She relocated to Chicago with her husband, C. Arnold Anderson in 1949. The two were married on July 18th,1942 in Iowa City. Together they had one child, Lloyd Barr. Dr. Bowman passed at home in Hyde Park, Illinois on June 4th, 2002.

Career Addition:
In the 1930's, Dr. Bowman was doing research and casework at the Massachusetts Women's State Prison.

During her time teaching at Iowa State she, and the other school's scientists were asked, under pressure from the dairy industry to support the idea that, "butter is better for you than margarine." In what became known as the oleomargarine Diaspora, she, her husband, Theodore Schultz, D. Gale Johnson, and others left the university as a form of protest.

Mary Jean Bowman was the only female member of the social science research council, and she served at the national level for the American Association of University Women in 1953.

Due to her husband being a faculty member at the University, Bowman served as an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago until she received a faculty appointment in 1958 as a result of a change in nepotism rules at the university. In 1969 she received joint-appointment in the economics and education departments at the university.

Her Work:
Mary Jean Bowman wrote six books and over seventy five articles. She was known for her work in the economics of education. In the 1940's and 1950's, the textbook that she co-authored with George Leland Bach, called Economic Analysis and Public Policy became the most popularly used college level economic textbook. She researched and published articles on domestic and international economic issues, and worked with her husband to publish work as well.

References:
Maire Nurmet is an economics scholar from Estonia. She has a PhD in Agriculture Accounting and Finance. She is currently a professor at the University of Tartu, where she also serves as the chair of Finance and Accounting.

Research
Maire's main area of study is agricultural economics. She has studied very specific ideas within the field such as the balance between investment and agriculture, the structure of those and how it all effects the growth of agriculture. During her time as an associate professor she worked on the concept of the connection between entrepreneurship and the economies of rural areas. She looked at the presence and absence of this entrepreneurship activity and compared them in a cluster analysis. She also researched in the area of financial leverage on agricultural economics. Nurmet has done extensive research in agricultural economic growth finding that, "net incomes, sales turnover and the size of an agricultural firm are important factors," in their growth.

Publications
She has written for multiple journals including; Financial Structure of Agricultural Firms, Entrepreneurial Activity in Rural Municipalities of Three South-Eastern Estonian Counties in 2005- 2009: a Cluster Analysis of Rural Municipalities, Farm Sector Capital Structure Indicators in Estonia, Financial Aspect of the Firms' Sustainability in Estonian Agriculture.