Hey people I mostly admire

listeners. I woke up this morning to the fantastic news that Claudia Golden

had won the Nobel Prize in economics. I had the honor of having Claudia as a

guest on this show back in 2021 and we thought

we'd be published that episode as a bonus so you could hear about her groundbreaking work

on women in the labor market.

I hope you enjoy my interview with Claudia and we'd be back with a brand new episode of people I mostly admire on Friday.

My guest today is Harvard University Economist Claudia Golden.

She's spent almost 50 years researching the experience of women in the labor market,

and she smashed through more than her own fair share of barriers along the way.

If you had ideas, if you were interested,

if you could take the heat, and there was a lot of heat,

then you're a member of the inner group.

Welcome to people I mostly admire, with Steve Leavitt.

Claudioi has pulled this research together into a book entitled Career and Family, Women's Century Long Journey

Towards Equity. I've got so many questions for her and the only thing I have to be on the lookout

for is that sometimes people who study a topic for 50 years they forget

how little everyone else knows about the subject. I've got to make sure our

conversation stays understandable for late people.

Claudia, it's so nice to talk. It has been ages since we've seen each other.

So you are probably the world's leading expert on the

experience of women in the US labor market. People talk about the gender wage gap.

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