Claudia Goldin wins the Nobel prize in economics
Her work has overturned assumptions about gender equality
On the morning of October 9th the National Bureau of Economic Research circulated a working paper to economists around the world entitled “Why Women Won”. In the paper, Claudia Goldin of Harvard University documents how women achieved equal rights in American workplaces and families. Rather fittingly, a few hours later, Ms Goldin was announced as the winner of this year’s economics Nobel prize, for advancing “our understanding of women’s labour-market outcomes”.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Golden Goldin”
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