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Mildred Barker grew up on an orange ranch in Pasadena, California, has worked in a cannery as a technician counting worm fragments in tomato products and in a hospital doing blood counts, taught in a rural school in New Mexico, was a job counselor at a Youth Opportunity Center in Manhattan, New York, helped rewrite the Department of Labor’s Dictionary of Occupational Titles to make job titles less sexist. She writes short stories about Women and Their Jobs. Her stories have appeared in Ms., Nimrod, If I Had A Hammer, and Home Planet News.

Full Name

Mildred Barker

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

LITWORK

Dictionary of Occupational Titles


Mildred Barker helped rewrite this dictionary for the New York State Department of Labor in order to eliminate sexist job titles.

Unknown

OTHER

Mildred Barker was a job counselor at a Youth Opportunity Center in Manhattan, New York.

2001

LITWORK

Hot Stitches!
Crazy Ladies Press, Kingston, New York.
0-9710027-0-3.

2002

LITWORK

Black Cat Boogie
Crazy Ladies Press, Kingston, New York.
0971002738; ISBN 13: 9780971002739.

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