Harvard based economist, Claudia Goldin has won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour market inequality between men and women.
The Royal Swedish Academy explained that Goldin’s work provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries.
The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year’s crop of Nobel prizes and worth nearly $1 million.
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.
