Harvard’s Claudia Goldin awarded Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Harvard Gazette

The Henry Lee Professor was honored for her research on women in the workplace.

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One of the very few women awarded a Nobel in economics, and the only one to do so alone, that is, not in the company of a male colleague. Perhaps, with this, Claudia Goldin may become a role model in encouraging women into a profession and a branch of academics in which they remain underrepresented.

I have downloaded this, her latest publication (for the National Bureau of Economic Research), tracing women’s historical and social status in the workplace in the United States. A hefty piece for sure – with lots of numbers and graphs and things – but may be well worth the effort.