Dunkle, Margaret C., 1947-

Margaret Claire Dunkle, daughter of Maurice Albert and Hannah Margaret Dunkle, was born in 1947, in Maryland. She received her B.A. from Syracuse University in 1969. She was a research assistant at Tufts University and a research associate at Bio-Dynamics, Inc. (1969-1971); associate director of the Project on the Status and Education of Women, Association of American Colleges (1972-1977); special assistant in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1977-1979); consultant (1979-1982); project director for the Health Equity Project (1980-1982); partner in Brown & Dunkle (1982-1985); executive director and founder of The Equality Center (1982-1990); director of the American Association of University Women Educational Fund (1990-1991); and director of policy exchange at the Institute for Educational Leadership (1991). She was also co-founder and the first chairman of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education (1975-1977). She was a member of the Federal Organizations for Professional Women (national president, 1979-1980), the American Educational Research Association (recipient of the Activist and Policy Award, 1990), the National Council for Research on Women (board of directors, 1991-1992), the National Society of Fund Raising Executives, and the Girard St. Association (co-founder and coordinator, 1981-1993). She was the author of Competitive Athletics: In Search of Equal Opportunity (1977) and Just What the Doctor Should Have Ordered: A Prescription for Sex-Fair School Health Services (1989), and the co-author of Exploitation from 9 to 5: Report of the Twentieth Century Task Force on Women and Employment (1975) and Mobility in the Marketplace: Case Studies of Programs, Policies and Practices That Provide Working Women with Career Mobility (1981). She contributed to Women's Centers--Where Are They? (1974), and wrote chapters and articles for numerous books and journals.

From the guide to the Papers, 1957-1993, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute)

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