© Reuters. A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is revealed in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9,2023 REUTERS/ Tom Little
By Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Harvard financial historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics reward for her work exposing gender space problems consistingof deeply rooted wage inequality inbetween males and ladies, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated on Monday.
The prominent award, officially understood as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year’s crop of Nobel rewards and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or almost $1 million.
“This year’s Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, offered the veryfirst extensive account of females’s incomes and labour market involvement through the centuries,” the prize-giving body stated in a declaration.
“Her researchstudy exposes the triggers of modification, as well as the primary sources of the staying gender space.”
The award for economics is the last instalment of this year’s crop of Nobels that haveactually seen rewards go to COVID-19 vaccine discoveries, atomic pictures and “quantum dots” as well as to a Norwegian dramatist and an Iranian activist.
Goldin, who in 1990 endedupbeing the veryfirst lady to be tenured at Harvard’s economics department, is just the 3rd lady to win the Nobel economics reward – and the veryfirst to win it by herself rather than sharing it.
She hailed the choice as “an award for huge concepts and for long term modification”.
“There are still big distinctions inbetween ladies and males in terms of what they do, how they’re compensated and so on,” Goldin informed Reuters at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“And the concern is, why is this the case? And that’s what the work is about.”
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