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Dr. Evelyn F. Murphy is president of The WAGE Project, Inc., and resident scholar on leave 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." Her book and The WAGE Project, a national organization to end wage discrimination against working women, have been recognized in more than two hundred nationally syndicated radio and television shows and newspapers. Murphy's efforts have inspired women to start their own grassroots initiatives and to work towards equitable treatment at work.
In the late 1970s, Murphy served as Massachusetts Secretary of Environmental Affairs with responsibility for the state's environmental policy and management of 5000 employees. Her leadership in opposing offshore oil and gas exploration, and in initiating state heritage parks, earned her national recognition. She was appointed the Massachusetts 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 supervising unemployment compensation and workplace retraining programs.
Murphy was elected Massachusetts Lt. Governor in 1986 when she became the first woman in state history to hold constitutional office. In 1990 Murphy became Managing Director of Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, a New England law firm. Murphy has held corporate board positions at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Shawmut National Banks, Fleet National Bank, Fleet Mortgage Company, and Fleet Credit Card Corporation. Murphy later became an executive vice president at Blue Cross and Blue Shield, where she managed all federal and state media and civic relations. During this time, she founded and became president of the health insurer's HealthCare Policy Institute.
She is a corporate director of Citizen's Energy Corporation and, 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., and a member of the Advisory Board of Rosie's Place, a shelter for homeless women in Boston. Murphy is also a member of the International Women's Forum and the Boston Club. She is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees and has been honored with over one hundred national, state, and local awards.
Murphy earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in mathematics; a master's in economics from Columbia University; and a doctorate in economics from Duke University.
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