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Williams’ roles throughout her career highlighted an amalgamation of Economics, Afro- American studies and Women's studies. Her roles related to this included, being a professor in Afro-American Studies at the University of Texas Austin (1983-1987), Assistant Professor for Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies and  Economics at Yale University (1987-1989)  and  a joint appointment in Economics and Afro-American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park where she was eventually an Associate Professor and Director for the Afro-American Studies Program at the time of her death (2000). She was also able to lecture at some of the United States’ top ranking higher education institutions (according to the Times Higher Education World Rankings and U.S. News & World Report) such as Harvard's, Radcliffe Public Policy Centre, Duke University  and Mount Holyoke College, one of the schools in the Seven Sisters Alliance. While teaching, she also worked as a consultant for the public-school system for 9 years in Prince George's County Maryland under the county's Multicultural Teacher Education Training Institute.

“How Does It Feel to Be Free?: Reflections on Racial Economic Inequality in the Era of ‘Color Blind’ Law” (1999)

“Race, Markets, and Social Outcomes” (1997)

“The Changing Contours of Discrimination: Race, Gender, and Structural Economic Change” (1994)

Williams received a B.A in Economics from Harvard University in 1978 and her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983 with a focus in labour economics.

This chapter was written in conjunction with fellow female economist M.V Lee Badgett, whereby Williams and Badgett aimed to look at the impacts of rising inequality across the genders and the races to see specifically where the benefits, or lack thereof, accrue. This was achieved through a look at the labour markets prior to 1970 followed by a data analysis of the shifts in the labour market in the 1970s and 1980s, looking at numerical values for unemployment, low wage employment and high wage employment of black men and white men and black women and white women (insufficient data prevented them from analyzing other groups such as Hispanic, Asian American and  Native American). They found that men and white individuals had bigger shares of high wage employment,  women collectively increased their share of high wage employment and black individuals showed modest growth but increased their share of serious unemployment. From their analysis it was seen that, for example,  individuals with weekly incomes below the workforce median or unemployment for longer than 11 weeks were more highly represented in black communities than white communities across the sample years 1973, 1979 and 1987 and there was a 16% to 20% difference between white and black individuals that earned weekly incomes above the median wage.

Dr. Rhonda M. Williams (January 1, 1957–November 7, 2000) was a professor, activist and political economist whose work combined economics with multiple other social fields including race and gender analysis, law, politics, public policy and cultural studies. She aimed to show how the examination of the roles of race and gender in economics benefitted from an inclusive approach rather than a separate and fragmented analysis in order to ensure that issues of economic inequality and discrimination were aptly addressed. Williams was also noted as being consistent in aligning her own ethics with economic analysis resulting in a legacy in the political economy of race and gender.