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 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
Abigail Adams Award, Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, 2000[3]
Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004[3]
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)
Albelda, Randy Pearl (1997). Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field. Impact of feminism on the arts & sciences. New York, NY:
Twayne Publishers.
ISBN9780805797596.
OCLC652472647.