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

Background

Albelda attended

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (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 The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. In 1983 her first paper was published researching the determinants of women's wages during the Progressive era. Albelda became a professor at

University of Massachusetts Boston The University of Massachusetts Boston (stylized as UMass Boston) is a Public university, public research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the only public research university in Boston and the third-largest campus in the five-campus Un ...

in Economics in 1988. She has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform. She became an associate editor for the journal ''Feminist Economics'' in 2004, an editorial associate for

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magazine in 1986, and was a co-founder of Academics Working Group on Poverty in Massachusetts in 1995, remaining until 1999.

Representative publications

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 Katherine Jane Humphries, CBE FBA (born 9 November 1948), is a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford with the Title of Distinction of professor of economic history. Her research interest has been in economic growth and development ...

). This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal ''

Feminist Economics Feminist economics is the critical study of economics and economies, with a focus on gender-aware and inclusive economic inquiry and policy analysis. Feminist economic researchers include academics, activists, policy theorists, and practition ...

''.

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Representative publications

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