Gender gap pioneer Goldin wins Nobel economics prize

A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is announced in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9, 2023. REUTERS/ Tom Little

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour market inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year's crop of Nobel prizes and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns, or nearly $1 million.