Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Professor for Research on the Workplace Gender Gap

Claudia Goldin speaks to a reporter on the phone in her home in Cambridge, Mass., after learning that she received the Nobel Prize in Economics on Oct. 9, 2023. Josh Reynolds/AP Photo

STOCKHOLM—The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the labor market.

She has studied 200 years of women’s participation in the workplace, showing that despite continued economic growth, women’s pay did not continuously catch up to men’s and a divide still exists despite women gaining higher levels of education than men.