Beyond High School - November Edition
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Imagine doing research that transcends disciplines and library shelves. Claudia
Goldin, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2023, spent years solving the
mysterious question around gender wage-gap. She wondered, if men and women do
the same job, why do their paychecks look different?
The conclusions of her discoveries are exceptionally important, and so is her research
methodology. This is where students can draw inspiration from Goldin, as she looks at
various disciplines to arrive at results which help us understand the hidden parts between
what we easily see as black or white.
Using multidisciplinary insights, she discovered how most women who are not paid fairly
often wish to pursue both professional and family goals; this is what she calls the mommy-
track. Their dual ambition compels them to juggle priorities between work and family, due
to unequal distribution of labour between the husband and the wife back home.
Picture Goldin as a detective who used cues from different worlds of history, sociology,
psychology to solve what riddled her - why did women earn less than men? She opened
her toolkit and picked up a variety of tools to join the missing pieces. She wore the
robes of a historian as she went through public records from two centuries. She got on the
field and operated as a sociologist, learning why certain tasks are assigned to specific
genders. She became a student of psychology and uncovered the hidden biases that
compel women to walk on the mommy-track, sometimes deprioritising their careers.
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Claudia Goldin,
Henry Lee Professor
of Economics,
Harvard University
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