Randy Albelda

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

Education and career 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.

In 2021, Albelda became professor emerita of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has served on the editorial board of the journal Feminist Economics, as an editorial associate for Dollars & Sense magazine, and was a co-founder of Academics Working Group on Poverty in Massachusetts in 1995, remaining until 1999.

Awards Abigail Adams Award, Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, 2000 Chancellor's Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004 This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Feminist Economics.