Claudia Goldin wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her contribution to understanding gender inequalities in the workplace
The 2023 Nobel Prize season is coming to a close with the announcement of the final laureate this year. On Monday, October 9, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American researcher, for her work on gender inequalities in the labor market.
Claudia Goldin becomes the third woman to win this prestigious prize. The jury praised her research, which has shed new light on the role of women in the world of work, both in the past and today.
Claudia Goldin conducted an in-depth analysis by examining over two centuries of data from the United States, highlighting the evolution of income gaps and employment rates between men and women over time.
Randi Hjalmarsson, a member of the Nobel jury, emphasized the significance of this contribution.
Claudia Goldin, who became the first woman to join the Harvard economics department in 1989, has also written numerous books to make her research accessible to the general public.
Her latest book, titled «Career and Family – Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity», published in 2021, provides a remarkable synthesis of her work, exploring the transformations in women’s participation in the U.S. labor market since the early 20th century and the changing complexity of the relationship between career and family.
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, established by the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) in memory of Alfred Nobel in 1969, is the most recent addition to the traditional five Nobel Prizes (Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace), added more than sixty years after the others.
Pedro Okalamar
