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Research Areas
Economics; Public Policy; Gender Discrimination
Education
Ph.D., Duke University
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Duke University
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Evelyn Murphy
Evelyn Murphy
Evelyn Murphy, a Ph.D. economist, the Founder and President of The WAGE Project, Inc., and Resident Scholar (on leave 2010-11) 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 Chair 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 founding 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, most recently, March 2010 Advancing Women Award by the Boston Business Journal. 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.
Current Projects
On leave for the 2011-2012 Academic Year.
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 and Schuster, 2005.