The announcement went a tiny step to closing the Nobel committee's own gender gap.
The Nobel economics prize was awarded on Monday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labour market.
"Understanding women's role in the labour market is important for society. Thanks to Claudia Goldin's groundbreaking research, we now know much more about the underlying factors and which barriers may need to be addressed in the future," said Jakob Svensson, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences.
However, "by finally understanding the problem and calling it by the right name, we will be able to pave a better route forward," Hjalmarsson said. In Goldin's analysis, a woman's role in the job market and the pay she receives aren't influenced just by broad social and economic changes. They also are determined partly by her individual decisions about, for example, how much education to get.
Her award follows the awards in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace that were announced last week.
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