Daw Mya Sein (left) participated in the the Burma Round Table Conference, London 1931.
Daw Mya Sein, born in 1904 in Moulmein, is of Mon and Arakanese stock.
Her distinguished career typifies the increasingly active role of women
in Burmese public life. Mother of two children, she has still found time
to be headmistress of several schools, editor and broadcaster, first
woman elected to the Rangoon City
Corporation, delegate to the London Round Table Conference of 1931 and
the Paris UNESCO Conference of 1946, President of the National Council
of Women, and a leader in social work. She is Lecturer in history at
Rangoon University and has made two lecture tours in the United States.