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International Women's Day Happy Hour

Satday, March 6th 4 pm - 6 pm

The James John Cafe

8527 N Lombard, Portland, OR (Map)

Celebrate International Women's Day this year with one of the foremost leaders in Women in Development research, Irene Tinker (www.irenetinker.com)

Drinks,networking and food 4-5, lecture 5-6
Cost: $20 includes food and wine and a door prize ticket
Please RSVP to info@globalsistergoods.com or 503-285-6780

Title of presentation: The four IWY world conferences, the changing priorities, and the role of the NGO Forum
Irene Tinker, Professor Emerita from the University of California Berkeley, has focused much of her career on how global economic development has affected women and men differently. An activist as well as a scholar, she has lobbied for policy change and encouraged collaborative research with scholars abroad. She attended all four of the UN Conferences for Women –1975, 1980, 1985, 1995– and participated in seminars at the NGO Forums at all of them.

To understand the rapid socio-economic transformations taking place during her lifetime, Irene drove from London to New Delhi in 1951 where she studied India’s first general election for her doctoral dissertation. She and her new husband, Millidge Walker, drove back to London from Kenya. Her book: Crossing Centuries: A Road Trip through Colonial Africa will be published this spring. Since then she has conducted research in 53 countries and lectured in 36.