Haney, Mary P.

Born January 17, 1926, San Francisco, California. Consultant on international and domestic women's issues; Writer. Mary P. Haney was born in San Francisco, California, on January 17, 1926. She received an A.B. degree in 1946 from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Public Law and Government from Columbia University in 1947. Haney began working for the United States Mission to the United Nations 1948. In 1954, she married Robert C. Haney, a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency serving in Paris. After that, the Haneys lived in Paris, Washington, D.C., Belgrade, Mali, and Saigon, with their three children born in different places along the way. In 1965, Mary and the children were evacuated from Vietnam to the Philippines and soon after that, relocated to Warsaw. By 1968, the family returned to the United States and lived in Washington, D.C., until 1974. During that time Haney became involved in the U.S. women's movement. When her husband was assigned to India, she became the unofficial U.S. Embassy's in-house expert on Indian and American women's issues. On returning to the United States in 1977, she became the coordinator of international programs on women's issues at the George Washington University's graduate-level Women's Studies Program and Policy Center. Since 1985, she has worked as an independent consultant for a variety of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on international and domestic women's issues.