Evelyn Murphy

Areas of Expertise

Economics; Public Policy; Gender Wage Discrimination

Email: evmurphy@brandeis.edu

Current Project

On leave for the 2009-2010 Academic Year.

Biography

Evelyn Murphy, a Ph.D. economist, the Founder and President of The WAGE Project, Inc., and Resident Scholar (on leave 2009-10) in the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where she researched and authored a book with E.J. Graff on the gender wage gap entitled Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It.

After serving as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Secretary of Economic Affairs, in 1986, Evelyn Murphy was elected Lt. Governor and became the first woman in the state’s history to hold constitutional office. Dr. Murphy is Vice Chair (chair-elect) of the Board of Directors of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company and Director of Citizens Energy Corporation. In her civic role, she is a Director of The Commonwealth Institute; Honorary Chair, The Lost Coin Women’s Fund, Inc; Advisory Board Member, Rosie’s Place and Our Bodies Ourselves.

The recipient of eleven honorary degrees and more than one hundred awards from organizations. In her spare time, she has run the Boston Marathon many times and can be seen in the bleachers cheering for the Boston Red Sox.

Education

Ph.D., Duke Universit

M.A., Columbia University

B.A., Duke University

Representative Publications

Murphy, Evelyn F. with E.J. Graff. Getting Even: Why Women Still Don’t Get Paid Like Men – And What To Do About It. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Links

The Wage Project