Evelyn Murphy to speak at AAUW meeting

The Hingham Journal

Thu Apr 03, 2008, 02:31 PM EDT

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Hingham - Hingham Area Branch of the American Association of University Women will sponsor a program at 7 p.m., on April 8, at Notre Dame Academy, 1073 Main St. Murphy, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, will speak on the topic of “Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men - and What to do About It.

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 titled “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 Co. and Citizens Energy Corp. In her civic role, she serves as a founding director of The Commonwealth Institute, a trustee of Regis College, honorary chairwoman of Lost Coin Women’s Fund Inc., a director of The Polaris Project and a visitor of Boston University’s School of Public Health.