Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

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Business, Mathematics, Science, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has become only the third woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize for her groundbreaking research on women’s employment and pay. Tim Harford discusses her work showing how gender differences in pay and work have changed over the last 200 years and why the gender pay gap persists to this day. Presenter: Charlotte McDonald Producer: Jon Bithrey Editor: Richard Vadon Sound Engineer: David Crackles (Picture: Claudia Goldin at Havard University Credit: Reuters / Reba Saldanha)

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0:00.0	The explanation is the podcast from the BBC World Service that goes beyond the spin,
0:07.0	exploring the important questions about long-running stories and the latest global news.
0:13.0	An honest explanation of the events shaping our lives.
0:18.0	Search for the explanation wherever you get your BBC podcast.
0:30.0	Thank you for downloading the More or Less podcast.
0:33.0	We're your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life and I'm Charlotte McDonald.
0:38.0	The American Economic Historian Claudia Golden has been awarded this year's
0:43.0	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for her pioneering research on women's employment and pay.
0:49.0	Professor Golden becomes just the third woman to win the prize since it was launched more than 50 years ago
0:55.0	and the first to win it alone.
0:57.0	She had this to say to BBC World Services News Hour programme shortly after the announcement on Monday.
1:03.0	I am delighted that an area that includes the history of women,
1:09.0	what women do, what they have done, what they do in various countries,
1:14.0	and also the area of gender that both of these are being recognised
1:21.0	because they are done and many of the people who do them don't feel that they are completely recognised.
1:29.0	So it's that time of year again, it's become customary to turn the tables and put
1:34.0	regular more or less presenter Tim Halford on the other side of the microphone.
1:38.0	Hello Tim.
1:39.0	Hello Charlotte, just when I tried to get a help they dragged me back in.
1:44.0	So we're here to talk about Claudia Golden.
1:46.0	Why don't we start from the beginning?
1:48.0	Can you tell us how she started out?
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