Goldberg, Gertrude Schaffner

GERTRUDE SCHAFFNER GOLDBERG is Professor of Social Policy, Adelphi University School of Social Work, and was for a number of years the director of its Center for Social Policy. Professor Goldberg has published widely on issues of public assistance, the feminization of poverty, comparative social-welfare systems, and social administration. Among her earlier books is "The Feminization of Poverty: Only in America?" (Praeger, 1990) and "Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken: 1935 to the Present".