Claudia Goldin’s Nobel win acknowledges what we should all know: women’s economics is mainstream economics | Josie Cox

The recognition of Goldin's pay gap analysis is empowering for all of us, but depressingly, her gender is still more newsworthy

A few years ago I took a class on the most influential modern economists. It was at an Ivy League institution in the US and dozens of old, white men and their theories made the syllabus. Claudia Goldin was the only woman. On the slide accompanying the lecture in which she was featured, her name was misspelled.

On Monday, Goldin won the Nobel economics prize. After Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019, Goldin is only the third woman to win, and the first to be honoured solo.

Josie Cox is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in business, finance and gender equality