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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.

Background

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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 Amherstin 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]

Bibliography

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  • Albelda, Randy Pearl (1988). Mink coats don't trickle down : the economic attack on women and people of color. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9780896083288. OCLC 918376711.
  • Albelda, Randy Pearl; Tilly, Chris (1997). Glass ceilings and bottomless pits : women's work, women's poverty. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9780896085664. OCLC 605023572.
  • Albelda, Randy Pearl (1997). Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field. Impact of feminism on the arts & sciences. New York, NY: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 9780805797596. OCLC 652472647.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Aldrich, Mark; Albelda, Randy (1980). "Determinants of Working Women's Wages during the Progressive Era" (PDF). Explorations in Economic History. 17 (4): 323–341. doi:10.1016/0014-4983(80)90001-7 – via Academia.edu.
  2. ^ Albelda, Randy; Clayton-Matthews, Alan; Douglass, Anne; Kelleher, Christa; Zeng, Songtian; Nsiah-Jefferson, Laurie (2023-10-01). "Estimating the Impacts of Legislation to Expand Affordable Quality Child Care and Early Education in Massachusetts: Initial Findings on Utilization, Employment, and Financial Assistance. Research Brief #1". Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy: 2.
  3. ^ a b c "Randy Albelda, PhD, Professor Emerita of Economics, College of Liberal Arts". UMB. 2023-11-08. Archived from the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  4. ^ "Randy Albelda". GBH. 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  5. ^ "Editorial Team – Feminist Economics". Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  6. ^ "About Dollars & Sense | Dollars & Sense". www.dollarsandsense.org. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  7. ^ "Welfare time limits, 1998-2000; includes research by Academic Working Group on Poverty organized by Randy Albelda". Harvard Library. 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  8. ^ Albelda, Randy P; Humphries, Jane; Himmelweit, Susan (2005). Dilemmas of lone motherhood. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415360180.
  9. ^ Albelda, Randy P.; Bergmann, Barbara; Green, Kate; Himmelweit, Susan F.; Women's Committee of One Hundred; Koren, Charlotte (July 2004). "Lone mothers: What is to be done?". Feminist Economics. 10 (2). Taylor and Francis: 237–264. doi:10.1080/1354570042000217793. S2CID 154744396.
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