Women’s Educational and Industrial Union is established.

Founded by Dr. Harriet Clisby, Louisa May Alcott, Abby Morton Diaz, Mary Thorn Lewis Gannett, and Julia Ward Howe, it is located initially at 4 Park Street. Its purpose is “to secure the best practical methods for securing their [women’s] educational, industrial, and social advancement,” and it provides free legal advice to poor workers, establishes an employment bureau and the first credit union in the U.S. in 1913, and a retail shop in 1905. It subsequently moves to Boylston Place, then to Byron Street, then to its long-time location at 356 Boylston Street in 1906. Renamed the Women’s Union and moves to 1 Washington Mall in 2004, it merges with Crittenton, Inc. and becomes the Women’s Crittenton Union on July 1, 2006. It is renamed Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) in 2016.