Florence E McCarthyGrowing up on a small farm in California, the author, as a young Berkeley graduate was sent as a Peace Corps Volunteer to what was then East Pakistan. Her assignment was to establish a program in household improvement for village women in Comilla, uner the auspices of the Academy for Rural Development. This experience in women's development led to doctoral studies in the United States. In the years following the establishment of Bangladesh in 1972, she was Advisor to the Women's Program of the national Integrated Rural Development Program (IRDP), Head of the Women's Section of the Policy and Planning Division of the Ministry of Agriculture (1982-1986), and later Advisor regarding development priorities in women's programs for Norway, Sweden and Denmark in Bangladesh.Leaving active involvement in Bangladesh in 1989, she returned to academic life. Since then, she has contributed to establishing academic Service-Learning in South and Southeast Asia, as well as new programs in refugee education. She has published widely on these topics. Read More Read Less