Irene Tinker

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1927|03|08}}

| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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| alma_mater = London School of Economics

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| institution = Departments of City and Regional Planning & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

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| spouse = Millidge Walker

| website = {{official website|http://irenetinker.com/}}

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Irene Tinker (born March 8, 1927, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin),{{cite web|last1=Peters |first1=Gerhard |last2=Woolley |first2= John T. |title=Jimmy Carter: "ACTION Nomination of Irene Tinker To Be an Assistant Director" |url= http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=7795|publisher=The American Presidency Project|date=July 13, 1977}} 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.{{cite web|title=Faculty & staff: Irene Tinker|url=http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/irene-tinker|publisher=UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design}}{{cite web |title= The Irene Tinker lecture series on women and development |url= http://www.american.edu/sis/id/Tinker-Lecture.cfm |publisher= American University, School of International Service}}{{cite episode | title = RadioZine | episode-link = Irene Tinker and her new book: "Crossing Centuries" | series = RadioZine20100726 | credits = Host/producer: Michelle Shroeder Fletcher | network = KBOO Community Radio | station = KBOO FM | location = Corvallis 104.3 FM | Hood River 91.9 FM | Portland 90.7 FM| airdate = July 26, 2010 }} She was the founding Board president of the International Center for Research on Women, founder and director of the Equity Policy Center{{cite book|title=Energy needs of poor households|publisher=USAID|url=http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAX511.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106152557/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAX511.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 6, 2014}}{{cite book|title=Ilo Ilo City Philippines Equity Policy Center| publisher= USAID|url= http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAP942.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140106174726/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNAAP942.pdf|url-status= dead|archive-date= January 6, 2014}} and co-founder of the Wellesley Center for Research on Women.{{cite web|title=Irene Tinker|url=http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/11|publisher=Department of Gender & Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley|access-date=July 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714233952/http://womensstudies.berkeley.edu/about/profile/faculty/11|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite book |last=Lowney| first=Skip| title=Fifty years of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley: A celebratory anthology of faculty essays|year=1998|publisher=NSQPress|pages=453–457}}{{cite book |last=Tinker |first= Irene|title=Indian political leadership: attitudes and institutions|year=1968|publisher=Research Analysis Corporation (RAC) Strategic Studies Dept.|location=VA|type=RAC-R-66}}

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.{{cite news|last1=Schneider|first1=Katie|title=New in the Northwest: 'Crossing Centuries' by Irene Tinker|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2010/10/new_in_the_northwest_crossing_1.html| publisher= Oregon Live LLC, the Oregonian|format=Book review|date=October 16, 2010}}{{cite news|title=Crossing Centuries: A 1953 African road trip anticipates the shape of things to come|url=http://worldoregon.org/events/programs/headline-and-cultural-forums/crossing-centuries-a-1953-african-road-trip-anticipates|publisher=World Affairs Council of Oregon | Headline and Cultural Forums | Events |date=August 24, 2011}}

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. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Nepal and Sri Lanka from 1987 through 1989.{{cite web|title= Irene Tinker Papers |url= http://www.american.edu/library/archives/finding_aids/tinker_fa.cfm |publisher= University Library, American University |location= Washington D.C. |format= 25 boxes containing a collection of papers/correspondence: 36.5 linear feet - open to the public upon request |quote= Scope and Content Note: ...The bulk of this collection is {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} materials relating to international development and especially the role of women and non-governmental organizations...}}

In 1977, Tinker became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP).{{Cite web|url=http://www.wifp.org/who-we-are/associates/|title=Associates {{!}} The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press|website=www.wifp.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-06-21}}

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.

Personal life

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

Selected publications

= Books =

{{cite book |last1=Tinker |first1= Irene |last2=Park |first2= Richard L. |title=Indian political leadership: attitudes and institutions| year=1960| publisher= Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, UK}}
{{cite book |last=Tinker |first= Irene|title=Indian political leadership: attitudes and institutions| year=1968| publisher=Research Analysis Corporation (RAC) Strategic Studies Dept.|location=VA }}
{{cite book | last1 = Tinker | first1 = Irene | last2 = Bramsen | first2 = Michèle Bo | title = Women and world development | publisher = Overseas Development Council | location = Washington DC | date = June 1976 | edition = 1st | isbn = 9780686295365 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Tinker | first1 = Irene | last2 = Bramsen | first2 = Michèle Bo | last3 = Buvinić | first3 = Mayra | title = Women and world development: with an annotated bibliography | publisher = Praeger | location = New York | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780275565206 }}
{{cite book | last = Tinker | first = Irene | title = Persistent inequalities: women and world development | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 1990 | isbn = 9780195061581 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Tinker | first1 = Irene | last2 = Blumberg | first2 = Rae L. | last3 = Rakowski | first3 = Cathy A. | last4 = Monteón | first4 = Michael | title = Engendering wealth and well-being: empowerment for global change | publisher = Westview Press | location = Boulder | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780813321073 }}
{{cite book | last = Tinker | first = Irene | title = Street foods urban food and employment in developing countries | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780195104356 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Tinker | first1 = Irene | last2 = Summerfield | first2 = Gale | title = Women's rights to house and land: China, Laos, Vietnam | publisher = Lynne Rienner Publishers | location = Boulder, Colorado | year = 1999 | isbn = 9781555878177 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Tinker | first1 = Irene | last2 = Fraser | first2 = Arvonne | author-link2 = Arvonne Fraser | title = Developing power: how women transformed international development | publisher = Feminist Press at the City University of New York | location = New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9781558614840 }}
{{cite book | last = Tinker | first = Irene | title = Crossing centuries: a road trip through colonial Africa | publisher = Inkwater Press | location = Portland, Oregon | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781592994717 }}
{{cite book | last = Tinker | first = Irene | title = Visioning an Equitable World: Reflections On women, Democracy, Education, and Economic Development | publisher = Inkwater Press | location = Portland, Oregon | year = 2016 | isbn = 9781629013206 }}

= Chapters in books =

{{Citation | last = Tinker | first = Irene | contribution = Utilizing interdisciplinarity to analyze global socio-economic change: a tribute to Ester Boserup | editor-last1 = Benería | editor-first1 = Lourdes | editor-last2 = Bisnath | editor-first2 = Savitri | editor-link1 = Lourdes Benería | title = Global tensions: challenges and opportunities in the world economy | pages = 173–184 | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780415934411 }}

= Journal articles =

{{Cite journal | last = Tinker | first = Irene | title = Quotas for women in elected legislatures: Do they really empower women? | journal = Women's Studies International Forum | volume = 27 | issue = 5 | pages = 531–546 | doi = 10.1016/j.wsif.2004.09.008 | date = November 2004 }}

= Collection of papers =

{{cite web|title=Irene Tinker Collection, 1936-2004 - University of Illinois Archives|url=http://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/?p=collections/controlcard&id=5827|publisher=University of Illinois Archives|ref=Series number 35/3/66|location=Illinois|format=Boxed collection of papers/correspondence: 93 cubic feet - stored off-site, prior notification required|date=1975–1990|quote=Description: ... materials collected by Irene Tinker, a professor and researcher on world development and the impact of development on women and men...}} [http://archives.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3503066.pdf Pdf list of material in collection.]
{{cite web|title= Irene Tinker Papers |url= http://www.american.edu/library/archives/finding_aids/tinker_fa.cfm |publisher= University Library, American University |location= Washington D.C. |format= 25 boxes containing a collection of papers/correspondence: 36.5 linear feet - open to the public upon request |quote= Scope and Content Note: ...The bulk of this collection is {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} materials relating to international development and especially the role of women and non-governmental organizations...}} [http://www.american.edu/library/archives/finding_aids/tinker_fa.cfm Scroll down for full list of contents.]