Another Spear on Male Soil
This year's Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian, for her work on women's employment and pay.
Prof. Goldin's research uncovered key drivers behind the gender pay gap, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
She is only the third woman to receive the prize, and the first to not share the award with male colleagues.
The 77-year-old academic currently teaches labour market history at Harvard University in the US.
She had "advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said, pointing to her work examining 200 years of data on the US workforce, showing how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates changed over time.
"This year's Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries," the prize-giving body said in a statement.
"Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap."
Her research found that married women started to work less after the arrival of industrialization in the 1800s, but their employment picked up again in the 1900s as the service economy grew.
Higher educational levels for women and the contraceptive pill accelerated change, but the gender pay gap remained.
While historically that earnings difference between men and women could be blamed on educational choices made at a young age and career choices, Prof. Goldin found that the current earnings gap was now largely due to the impact of having children.
"Claudia Goldin's discoveries have vast societal implications," said Randi Hjalmarsson, a member of the committee awarding the prize.
"She has shown us that the nature of this problem or the source of this underlying gender gap changes throughout history and with the course of development," she said.
Describing her as "a detective", Prof. Hjalmarsson said her work had provided a foundation for policymakers in this area around the world.
Globally, about 50% of women participate in the labour market compared to 80% of men, but women earn less and are less likely to reach the top of the career ladder, the prize committee noted.
Prof. Goldin was the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard's economics department in 1989. Economics still had an image problem with women, she told the BBC in 2018.
"Even before students enter university they believe economics is a field more oriented to finance and management and women are less interested in those than are men," she said. If we explained economics was about "inequality, health, household behaviour, society, then there'd be a much greater balance," she said.
The economics prize is different to the original prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace, which were established by Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901.
by Wanderer
Taken from Lucy Hooker
BBC News
Therefore and by way of conclusion.
1 - To emancipate themselves and achieve meaningful lives, women need to have equal pay and similar career opportunities.
2 - For women to have similar salaries and career opportunities, they must stop having children, or have far fewer children, ie substantially reducing the birth rate.
3 - To continue growing and not become extinct, humanity needs to procreate.
4 - If women in the West stop having children or reduce the birth rate, the West will reduce the number of inhabitants, entering into population decline and could even enter a process of extinction.
5 - Therefore, either women limit themselves to procreating
6 - Or politicians make positive discrimination when women choose to help preserve humanity.
Claire_dO
Note: We can still consider that since there are regions of the globe with absurd birth rates and concomitantly increased poverty, Westerners must open the doors to miscegenation and open the borders to young people from these regions, thus ensuring demographic stability without disturbing women's goals.
by Claire_dO
