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Randy Pearl Albelda (born 1955) is an American feminist economist, activist, author, and academic who specialises in poverty and gender issues.

Education and career

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Albelda attended Smith College, where she received a B.A. in economics in 1977, followed by a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983. Her first publication was a study of the determinants of women's wages during the Progressive era.[1]

In 2021, Albelda became professor emerita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston.[2][3] She has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform.[4] She has served on the editorial board of the journal Feminist Economics,[5] as an editorial associate for Dollars & Sense magazine,[6] and was a co-founder of Academics Working Group on Poverty in Massachusetts in 1995, remaining until 1999.[7]

Awards

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  • Abigail Adams Award, Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, 2000[3]
  • Chancellor's Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004[3]

Representative publications

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Her works include:

  • Mink Coats Don’t Trickle Down: The Economic Attack on Women and People of Color (1987; co-authored with Elaine McCrate, Edwin Melendez, and June Lapidus)
  • Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits (1997; co-authored with Chris Tilly)
  • Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field (1997)
  • Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood: Essay from Feminist Economics (2005; co-authored with Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries).[8] This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Feminist Economics.[9]

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