Randy Albelda

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, 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 paper was published researching the determinants of women's wages during the Progressive era.
Albelda became a professor at University of Massachusetts Boston 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 Dollars & Sense 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: