M. V. Lee Badgett is Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Public Policy & Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and also serves as research director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law. She is the author of "Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men" and co-editor of "Sexual Orientation Discrimination: An International Perspective".