Irene Tinker

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Irene Tinker
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Irene Tinker
Born (1927-03-08) March 8, 1927 (age 97)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
SpouseMillidge Walker
Academic career
Institution Departments of City and Regional Planning & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater London School of Economics
Influences Ester Boserup
Margaret Mead
Website Official website

Irene Tinker (born March 8, 1927, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), [1] is professor emerita in the Departments of City and Regional Planning & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, teaching from 1989 to 1998. [2] [3] [4] She was the founding Board president of the International Center for Research on Women, founder and director of the Equity Policy Center [5] [6] and co-founder of the Wellesley Center for Research on Women. [7]

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Education

Professor Tinker earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College in political philosophy and comparative government and her PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science in comparative government and development. Her dissertation was on India's first general elections and parliament after independence. [8] [9]

Career

With two colleagues, she drove a Ford Anglia from London to New Delhi in 1951. In 1953, she and her new husband drove back to London from Mombasa, Kenya, in an Austin A40. Her travelogue became a book, Crossing Centuries, published in 2010. [10] [11]

Tinker was appointed a United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1973. President Jimmy Carter appointed her assistant director of action in 1977. [1] She was a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal and Sri Lanka from 1987 through 1989. [12]

In 1977, Tinker became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP). [13]

Prior to UC Berkeley, she served on the faculties of Howard University, Federal City College/University of the District of Columbia, University of Maryland, and American University. As director of the international office of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she convened a seminar on women and international development in Mexico City in 1975 prior to the first UN International Conference on Women. [12]

Personal life

Tinker married Millidge Walker in 1952, with whom she has three children and five grandchildren. [12]

Selected publications

Books

Chapters in books

Journal articles

Collection of papers

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References

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  4. Host/producer: Michelle Shroeder Fletcher (July 26, 2010). "RadioZine". RadioZine20100726. Corvallis 104.3 FM | Hood River 91.9 FM | Portland 90.7 FM. KBOO Community Radio. KBOO FM.{{cite episode}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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  6. Ilo Ilo City Philippines Equity Policy Center (PDF). USAID.
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  8. Lowney, Skip (1998). Fifty years of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley: A celebratory anthology of faculty essays. NSQPress. pp. 453–457.
  9. Tinker, Irene (1968). Indian political leadership: attitudes and institutions (RAC-R-66). VA: Research Analysis Corporation (RAC) Strategic Studies Dept.
  10. Schneider, Katie (October 16, 2010). "New in the Northwest: 'Crossing Centuries' by Irene Tinker" (Book review). Oregon Live LLC, the Oregonian.
  11. "Crossing Centuries: A 1953 African road trip anticipates the shape of things to come". World Affairs Council of Oregon | Headline and Cultural Forums | Events. August 24, 2011.
  12. 1 2 3 "Irene Tinker Papers" (25 boxes containing a collection of papers/correspondence: 36.5 linear feet - open to the public upon request). Washington D.C.: University Library, American University. Scope and Content Note: ...The bulk of this collection is comprised of materials relating to international development and especially the role of women and non-governmental organizations...
  13. "Associates | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". www.wifp.org. Retrieved June 21, 2017.