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Martha Burk

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About Martha Burk
She resides in Corrales, New Mexico with her husband, Ralph Estes. Her two sons and five grandchildren live in Texas.

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Martha Burk Biography

Born Martha Gertrude Burk, October 18, 1941, in Tyler, TX; daughter of Ivan Lee Burk (an oil company engineer) and Dorothy May Dean (a dress–business owner); married Eddie C. Talley (a pharmacist), September 2, 1960 (divorced, 1985); married Ralph Estes (a professor), 1986; children: (first marriage) Edward, Mark. Education: University of Houston, B.S., 1962; University of Texas at Arlington, M.S., 1968, Ph.D., 1974.

Born in 1941, Burk grew up in Pasadena, Texas, a suburb of Houston. She earned top grades in high school and finished at age 16; her studies at the University of Houston were interrupted by marriage and the birth of her first child. Living in Dallas with her pharmacist husband, who ran a chain of drug stores, she became a parent again in 1965 and found herself increasingly dissatisfied with her role as a wife and mother. As she told Peter J. Boyer in a profile that appeared in the New Yorker, "the most radicalizing experience in my life was being a stay–at–home mother.… It forced isolation for women in that situation."
Returning to school, Burk received a master's degree in psychology and computer science from the University of Texas at Arlington, and then a Ph.D. in experimental psychology in 1974

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