Education and Early Career
Born in Wangaratta, Victoria, Clare Stevenson was the fifth of six children. When she was four her family moved to Essendon, where she attended Winstow Girls' Grammar School and Essendon High School, completing her intermediate and leaving certificates. In 1922, she entered the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, but switched to education after failing chemistry in her final year. A hockey blue, Stevenson was active in a number of campus groups, including the Students' Representative Council and the Science Club. She became President of the Committee of Melbourne University Women, and graduated in 1925 with a Diploma of Education.
Stevenson began working with the YWCA in 1926. A strong advocate of continuing education, during her first two years with the association she organised night classes for workers in Sydney. She served as General Secretary of the Rockhampton, Queensland, branch from 1929 to 1931. In 1932 she took up a position as a training and research officer at Berlei, and from 1935 to 1939 represented the company in London as a senior executive. Stevenson was based in Sydney at the outbreak of World War II, in charge of product research and the training of sales staff.
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