How Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize is a critical moment for the gender pay gap
Claudia Goldin’s work on power couples and greedy jobs provides key insights into the forces underpinning gender inequality.
The first thing Claudia Goldin did when she found out she'd won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Science was to tell her husband.
"I told him to take the dog out and make some tea and that I had to prepare for a press conference," she said.
Goldin, a Harvard University Professor of Economics, is only the third woman to ever receive this prize. And she was awarded it for her extensive research and academic writing on historical trends in gender equality and, specifically, women in the workforce.
Goldin's work tells us that the gender pay gap isn’t a creation of feminist imagination. But it's more complex than you might think and it’s not just about workplace discrimination either.
