More or Less: Behind the Stats - Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

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Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has become only the third woman to win the Nobel Economics Prize for her groundbreaking research on women’s employment and pay. Tim Harford discusses her work showing how gender differences in pay and work have changed over the last 200 years and why the gender pay gap persists to this day.

Presenter: Charlotte McDonald
Producer: Jon Bithrey
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound Engineer: David Crackles

(Picture: Claudia Goldin at Havard University
Credit: Reuters / Reba Saldanha)

Published on Saturday, 14th October 2023.

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