Irene Tinker (born March 8, 1927, in

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), is professor emerita in the Departments of City and Regional Planning & Women's Studies at the

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, teaching from 1989 to 1998. She was the founding Board president of the

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, founder and director of the Equity Policy Center and co-founder of the Wellesley Center for Research on Women.

Education

Professor Tinker earned her B.A. from

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in political philosophy and comparative government and her PhD from the

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and Political Science in comparative government and development. Her dissertation was on India's first general elections and parliament after independence.

Career

With two colleagues, she drove a

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from London to New Delhi in 1951. In 1953, she and her new husband drove back to London from

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, in an Austin A40. Her travelogue became a book, ''Crossing Centuries'', published in 2010. Tinker was appointed a United States delegate to the

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in 1973. President

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appointed her assistant director of action in 1977. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal and Sri Lanka from 1987 through 1989. In 1977, Tinker became an associate of the

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(WIFP). Prior to UC Berkeley, she served on the faculties of

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, Federal City College/University of the District of Columbia,

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, and

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. 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

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in 1975 prior to the first UN International Conference on Women.

Personal life

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

Selected publications

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References

External links

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