Breathe
By Fátima Masse
This week started with a great achievement for feminist economics. Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for analyzing gender differences in the labor market throughout history. This is great news for women, not only because of her research agenda, but also because of her own track record.
Dr. Goldin, who in an interview compared her work to that of a "detective," was the first economist to measure how women's labor force participation has evolved over the past 200 years. To do so, she had to track archival information and correct historical data to complete a very long time series.
