Claudia Goldin: Why Women Won

How did we move from a world in which discrimination against women was not recognized as an issue, in which women were routinely and legally fired when they were married or when they became pregnant, and in which they could not always get a credit card in their name or pick their own name legally, to the world we now live in, however imperfect? And what impact do expanded rights have on women, their families, and the economy generally? 

Biography 

Claudia Goldin  is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and holds  the Lee and Ezpeleta Professorship of  Arts &  Sciences at Harvard University. She is an economic historian and labor economist whose research spans topics such as the female labor force, the gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change, education, and immigration. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern.

Professor Goldin is the recipient of the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for advancing our understanding of women's labor market outcomes.

Read her full biography on harvard.edu or nobelprize.com