The *real* future of work with Prof Claudia Goldin

Mouthwash

Gender has a pivotal role in the workplace. From pay gaps to promotions, healthcare to harassment gender is still a huge issue when it comes to the world of work. How will it change now we’re working in more hybrid and remote scenarios? Is the world of work about to get fairer? On this episode of Mouthwash we’ll be exploring the effects the pandemic has had on future gender roles in the office and beyond.

ABOUT PROF. CLAUDIA (@pikagoldin)

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017. She is a co-director of the NBER's Gender in the Economy Study Group.

An economic historian and a labor economist, Goldin's research covers a wide range of topics, including the female labor force, the gender gap in earnings, income inequality, technological change, education, and immigration. Most of her research interprets the present through the lens of the past and explores the origins of current issues of concern. Her recently-completed book Career & Family: Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity (Princeton University Press) will be released October 2021.

She is the author and editor of several books, among them, Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women (Oxford 1990), The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy (with G. Libecap; University of Chicago Press 1994), The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century (with M. Bordo and E. White; University of Chicago Press 1998), Corruption and Reform: Lesson’s from America’s Economic History (with E. Glaeser; Chicago 2006), and Women Working Longer: Increased Employment at Older Ages (with L. Katz; Chicago 2018). Her book The Race between Education and Technology (with L. Katz; Belknap Press, 2008, 2010) was the winner of the 2008 R.R. Hawkins Award for the most outstanding scholarly work in all disciplines of the arts and sciences.

Goldin is best known for her historical work on women in the U.S. economy. Her most influential papers in that area have concerned the history of women’s quest for career and family, coeducation in higher education, the impact of the “Pill” on women’s career and marriage decisions, women’s surnames after marriage as a social indicator, the reasons why women are now the majority of undergraduates, and the new lifecycle of women’s employment.

Find out more about Prof. Claudia here.

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