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

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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]

• Abigail Adams Award, Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, 2000^[3]
• Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004^[3]

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)
• Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood: Essay from Feminist Economics (2005; co-authored with Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries).^[8] This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Feminist Economics.^[9]

• Albelda, Randy Pearl (1988). Mink coats don't trickle down : the economic attack on women and people of color. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9780896083288. OCLC 918376711.
• Albelda, Randy Pearl; Tilly, Chris (1997). Glass ceilings and bottomless pits : women's work, women's poverty. Boston, MA: South End Press. ISBN 9780896085664. OCLC 605023572.
• Albelda, Randy Pearl (1997). Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field. Impact of feminism on the arts & sciences. New York, NY: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 9780805797596. OCLC 652472647.

• Feminist economics
• List of feminist economists