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Goldin, who was just awarded the Nobel Prize for economics, has knocked down conventional wisdom by studying women's roles in the labor market over 200 years.
Recordings of human voices evoke more fear among animals living in the South African savanna than do snarls from lions. Plus, an economic historian who mined 200 years of gender pay gap data wins a Nobel Prize and researchers are seeking to understand the human body’s heat limit. Recordings of human voices evoke more fear among animals living in the South African savanna than do snarls from lions. Plus, an economic historian who mined 200 years of gender pay gap data wins a Nobel Prize and researchers are seeking to understand the human body’s heat limit.
'We see ripples of her impact through lots of different fields,' one economist told MarketWatch.
Observer caught up with the 77-year-old Harvard University professor to talk about her win
Express View: Many developing countries — India, in particular — need to study this issue more closely not just because it is deeply unjust to half the human race but also because it is downright inefficient to not have the best woman for the job