The Harvard economist has devoted decades to identifying the sources of gender pay discrimination and the deep-rooted inequality for women in the workplace.
including deeply rooted wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
The award for economics is the final instalment of this year’s crop of Nobels that have seen prizes go to COVID-19 vaccine discoveries, atomic snapshots and “quantum dots” as well as to a Norwegian dramatist and an Iranian activist.Goldin, who in 1990 became the first woman to be tenured at Harvard’s economics department, is only the third woman to win the Nobel economics prize - and the first to win it by herself rather than sharing it.
While it is illegal across much of the world for employers to discriminate based on gender, women still face significant shortfalls in pay compared to men. She has attributed the gap to factors ranging from outright discrimination to phenomena such as “greedy work”, a term she coined for jobs that pay disproportionately more per hour when someone works longer or has less control over those hours - effectively penalising women who need to seek flexible labour.
Malaysia Latest News, Malaysia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving 'voice to the unsayable'For Jon Fosse, the fourth Norwegian to win the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, writing has been a way of surviving.
Read more »
Harvard professor Claudia Goldin awarded Nobel economics prize for work on labour market gender gapIt follows the official Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace that were announced last week.
Read more »
Nobel economics prize goes to professor for advancing the understanding of the workplace gender gapThe announcement went a tiny step to closing the Nobel committee&x27;s own gender gap.
Read more »
Gender pay gap professor wins Nobel economics prizeHarvard University professor Claudia Goldin is only the third woman to win the economics prize.
Read more »
Claudia Goldin of the US wins Nobel economics prizeThe Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for her research helping understand the role of women in the labour market.
Read more »
Gender pay gap professor wins Nobel economics prizeHarvard University professor Claudia Goldin is only the third woman to win the economics prize.
Read more »