Not much in this article really justifies a Nobel Prize for this woman!
My mother has been a feminist since my childhood days. So in the 1960s/1970s I already learnt most of what Ms. Goldin has researched later. Her PhD thesis dates from 1972.
So how genuine or original was her research actually? I have some doubts.
Yesterday, I already blogged here about Claudia Goldin.
"... Goldin “had to be a data detective,” said the University of Gothenburg’s Randi Hjalmarsson, a member of the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences, at a press conference this morning. Because of the dearth of historical information about women’s labor, she had to find “novel data sources and creative ways to use them” to piece together the complicated history. Her research has drawn on census data, industrial statistics and time-use surveys to build a comprehensive picture of women’s work. Goldin’s work corrected older assumptions that married women in the 19th century had no occupations other than domestic labor: In reality, they frequently worked in agriculture or family businesses, and women at the end of the 1890s were employed at almost three times the rate that had been assumed based on census data. ..."
As if this was not well known before Goldin's work especially by feminists:
"She also found that ... But as clerical work opportunities grew in the 20th century, so did the acceptability of women’s work, and with falling social barriers—such as legislation barring married women from working—women’s participation grew. ..."
Was this not also well known before Goldin's work for many decades and by feminists:
"Goldin’s work also revealed that today’s enduring gender gap isn’t driven by levels of education—which are similar among men and women, or even higher among women in some countries—but instead by parenthood. Childless men and women have a very similar income ..."
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