Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

Meet the Faculty

June Lapidus, PhD - Professor of Economics

Associate Professor and Department Chair
Office: 876 (Auditorium Bldg., Chicago)
Email: jlapidus@roosevelt.edu
Phone: (312) 341-3765
Hours: Mon/Wed 11-12 and Mon 4-5

"I came to economics via the women's movement. I was a founding member of the Buffalo Women's Liberation Union and the Reproduction Rights National Network (R2N2), both in the 1970s. At that time I was a high school teacher and spent a week at the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) in Amherst, MA and loved it. Despite (accurate) warnings that graduate school wasn't like the CPE I decided to go for it. Economics was the ideal combination of my love of math and my commitment to social change. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts where I concentrated in labor economics and feminist theory. I wrote my dissertation on the growth of the temporary employment industry. This was in the mid-1980s before terms like contingent labor became part of the way we talked about the nature of work. Since coming to Roosevelt in 1990 I have researched, written, and taught about labor markets, feminist economics, welfare reform, comparable worth, and phone messages. (More on that later.) I feel privileged to work in an integrated institution committed to social justice where I have the freedom to study and teach economics from a critical perspective. And this Bronx born and bred Yankees fan has come to embrace Chicago and its baseball teams."

Recent Articles

1. All Lesbian Mothers Are Coupled, All Single Mothers Are Straight, and All of Us Are Tired: Reflections on Being a Single Lesbian Mom [PDF], Feminist Economics 10(2): 227-236, July 2004.
2. [with Deborah Figart] Remedying "Unfair Acts": U.S. Pay Equity by Race and Gender [PDF], Feminist Economics 4(3): 7-29, 1998.
3. [with Deborah Figart] A Gender Analysis of U.S. Labor Market Policies for the Working Poor [PDF], Feminist Economics 1(3): 60-81, 1995.

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