Cape Times (Digital)

Cape Times (Digital)

1 Issue, 2023-10-10

Nobel prize for work exposing gender gap

STOCKHOLM: Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing gender gap issues including deeply-rooted wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said yesterday. “This year’s Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries,” the prize-giving body said. Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap.” The award for economics, worth 11 million Swedish crowns (about R19m), is the last of this year’s Nobels, that have seen prizes go to Covid-19 vaccine discoveries, atomic snapshots and “quantum dots”, as well as to a Norwegian dramatist and an Iranian activist. | Reuters…
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