Article 6FDTJ Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender pay gap

Claudia Goldin wins Nobel economics prize for work on gender pay gap

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Harvard professor becomes only the third woman to win the prestigious prize

The Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has won the Nobel economics prize in recognition of her groundbreaking work examining wage inequality between men and women.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday that Goldin's research provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries" to reveal the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap".

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