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 womenβs 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)
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