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Fifteen Questions: Claudia D. Goldin on the Nobel Prize, Women in Economics, and the Barbie Movie | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

Goldin’s research has revealed the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings. She is the third woman to win the economics Nobel, and the first to win it individually rather than sharing the prize.

One of the most fiercely fought battle grounds in this year’s local election unexpectedly changed colour last night as Labour displaced the…

A coat of arms featuring a black sailing ship could be changed if a probe discovers it depicts a slave vessel, a council has revealed. Hammersmith and Fulham councils coat of arms depicts the arrival of Vikings in the borough in 879AD - but some fear it could actually represent a slave ship.  And those behind the probe suggested a horseshoe symbol on the coat of arms could have links to a 17th-century slave trader who lived locally, the Sun reported. The Labour-run authority in West London wil...

A leading figure in a campaign to topple Britains statues is a hard-left fanatic who previously expressed scepticism around the Pfizer vaccine, his social media posts have revealed. Toyin Agbetu, 53, joined Sadiq Khans new diversity commission this week to help investigate whether to remove statues and road names of prominent historical figures connected to the slave trade.  Mr Agbetu was previously known for his 2007 outburst in front of the Queen in 2007, when he shouted you should be ashame...

A SOMERSET MP claimed London should be spared “loony left-wing wheezes” as he branded the city’s mayor “Red Khan”. Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Leader of the Commons and MP for North East Somerset, said councils should be responsible for naming streets, and advised Sadiq Khan to not “interfere in things that aren’t his responsibility”. His remarks came as Mr Khan’s Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm was raised in the Commons. Fifteen panellists have been selected for...

Downing Street insists jab aimed at mayor's panel to review London statues was only 'colourful language'