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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Evelyn Murphy |
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Waltham, Massachusetts , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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May 14, 1940
(83 years)
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| Contributor | Not in Public Domain |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Dec 02, 2015 10:44pm |
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| Info | I have spent my entire professional career applying my Ph.D. in economics to a variety of social issues and public policy, particularly to health care, women's issues, economic development and the environment. In the mid-Seventies, I served as the state's Secretary of Environmental Affairs and discovered that in state government you could see results -- clean up rivers; build parks in cities where more people could enjoy such pleasures; and block offshore oil exploration when significant fish food supplies were not protected. After being thrown out of appointed office, I set out to become elected Lt. Governor. I lost the first try; served as Secretary of Economic Affairs; and finally won election in 1986. Until 1998, I was the only woman in Massachusetts history to serve in any statewide office. After an unsuccessful campaign for Governor in 1990, I managed a tri-state law firm, and then worked as an Executive Vice President for a $3 billion managed care company, directing all its external business and establishing its health care policy institute. Now, I serve on several corporate and civic boards, ran the Boston Marathon five times, do political commentary on television, and give speeches and guest lectures.
For much of my adult life, women's wages inched closer to men's. With more women graduating from college and working just like men, I assumed that we would catch up. But women's wage experience in the 1990s demonstrated that we will not catch up in the workplace if we continue our current course. For three years I have been researching and writing a manuscript about this topic. I hope to have a book published in the near future to serve as a backdrop for increasing women's activism for fair and equal pay.
In addition, I am particularly interested in issues that (a) advance women to the highest positions of political and corporate leadership in America; (b) further women's entrepreneurial success in our economy; (c) restructure health and medical care to be more responsive to women; and (d) build more widespread acceptance for a liberal agenda in America than exists today.
Evelyn Murphy is President of The WAGE Project, Inc., a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women, and Resident Scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, where she has researched and authored a book on women’s wages entitled Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What To Do About It, published by Simon & Schuster in October 2005.
She is a corporate director of SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Company and Citizens Energy Corporation. In her civic role, she serves as a founding director of The Commonwealth Institute, a trustee of Regis College, Honorary Chair of the Lost Coin Women’s Fund, Inc., a director of The Polaris Project, and a visitor of Boston University’s School of Public Health.
Evelyn Murphy earned a BA from Duke University in mathematics; a MA in economics from Columbia University; and a PhD in economics from Duke University.
In the late 1970s, she served as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs with responsibility for the state’s environmental policy. Her leadership in opposing offshore oil and gas exploration in the fishing grounds of the Georges Bank and initiating state heritage parks earned her national recognition. After an unsuccessful campaign for Lt Governor in 1982, she was appointed the state's Secretary of Economic Affairs from 1983-1985, with responsibility for the state’s economic policies and programs advancing biotechnology, computer technology, marine sciences, polymers, and photovoltaics along with unemployment compensation and retraining programs.
In 1986, Evelyn Murphy was elected Lt. Governor and became the first woman in the state’s 210 year history to hold constitutional office. Prior to that, despite the state’s progressive image, no woman had ever been elected Governor, Lt. Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor, or US Senator in Massachusetts.
After campaigning for Governor in 1990, Evelyn Murphy became Managing Director of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, a New England law firm. While managing the law firm, she became a corporate director of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts; and Shawmut National Banks of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, Fleet National Bank, Fleet Mortgage Company, and Fleet Credit Card Corporation. Blue Cross recruited her to the position of Executive Vice President to manage all federal and state, media and civic relations. While Executive Vice President, she founded and became President of the health insurer’s HealthCare Policy Institute.
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