Inequality | Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize win must lead to gender pay gap progress

Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, has made history by being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, for her ground-breaking research on the gender pay gap.

Goldin's work, which spans decades and dives deep into the complexities of gender pay equality, has gone a long way to not only researching the causes of the issue, but also amplifying it to a global audience.

Notably, in winning the award, she becomes only the third woman to receive the prize and the first to do so without sharing the award with male colleagues.

Currently a Professor of Labour Market History at Harvard University, Goldin’s research delves into two centuries of data on the workforce, shedding light on how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have evolved over time.