This week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Professor Claudia Goldin the Nobel Prize in Economics “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes,” making her the first solo woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.
The recognition represents decades of research and contributions, during which Professor Goldin broke down numerous barriers in the field of economics. She was the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard’s Economics Department in 1989, studied women in the workforce at a time when it received little to no support, devised novel research techniques combining cohort analyses and historical evidence, and was also the president of the American Economic Association and president of the Economic History Association. The list of accolades goes on.
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