Randy Albelda, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, will speak about "Gender Inequality in the Labor Market" on March 29. This lecture is part of the Levitt Center Speaker Series titled "Inequality and Equity" and is free and open to the public.
Albelda has worked as research director for the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform. She is the author of numerous books, chapters and articles focusing on economic policies affecting low-income families. She has written on welfare reform, paid family leave policies, racial and gender divisions in occupations, the distribution of family income and earnings and gender and race bias in radical theories of labor market segmentation.
Future Levitt Center lectures include Benjamin Bowser, professor of sociology and social services at California State University, East Bay, who will speak on "The African-American Middle Class" on April 10, and Richard Wasserstrom, professor emeritus of philosophy at University of California, Santa Cruz, who will speak on "Racism and Affirmative Action" on April 23.
