Like death and taxes, the gender wage gap is often taken as an unfortunate but inevitable condition we must simply learn to live with. I f you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: in the U.S., women who work full-time earn only 77 cents for every full-time male dollar. Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men - and What To Do About It 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.MMO Books: Getting Even by Evelyn Murphy with EJ Graff ResourcesĪnd reporting for mothers and others who think about social change. She is the recipient of eleven honorary degrees, the distinguished alumni award of the Graduate School of Duke University, and more than one hundred awards from federal, state and community organizations. She earned a BA in mathematics from Duke University MA in economics from Columbia University a PhD in economics from Duke University. 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, the Center for Women and Work at UMass Lowell, and the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy at UMass Boston. Murphy is Chair of the Board of Directors of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company and a Director of Citizens Energy Corporation.
Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor or United States Senator.ĭr. Prior to her election, no woman had ever served as Governor, Lt. Governor of Massachusetts and became the first woman in the state’s 200 year history to hold constitutional office.
In addition, she facilitates $tart$mart workshops on campuses for young women about to start their careers.Įarlier in her career, Evelyn Murphy served as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs, and subsequently as Secretary of Economic Affairs, In 1986, she was elected Lt. Murphy conducts Work$mart salary negotiation workshops for working women throughout the United States - to community women at YWCAs, at other community organizations, even at a mayor’s office to women staff and faculty in colleges and universities and through professional associations to women lawyers, surgeons, certified public accountants, scientists, librarians, and others.
is a nationwide, grassroots activist organization dedicated to eliminating the gender wage gap.ĭr. and author of Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It published by Simon & Schuster in 2005. economist, Founder and President of The WAGE Project, Inc.
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