Career and Family

Claudia Goldin

Claudia Goldin traces five generations of college educated women to show how greedy work and caregiving still divide careers, pay, and family life.

10 parts, about 28 minutes to read.

Why read it

Understand why the gender pay gap often widens after marriage and children, even when men and women begin their careers with similar earnings
See how a century of changing education, contraception, work, and family constraints reshaped women's pursuit of careers and children
Explore how job design, childcare, schedule control, and gender norms can reduce or intensify inequality within couples

Emily OsterBrown University economist and author of Expecting Better
This book is a must-read, especially for anyone balancing parenting with a career and frustrated with the disparate challenge on women in doing so.

Claudia GoldinHarvard economic historian and labor economist, 2023 Nobel laureate in economic sciences
- Goldin grew up in the Parkchester section of the Bronx in New York City.
- She earned a bachelor's degree at Cornell University and a doctorate at the University of Chicago.
- She is the Samuel W. Morris University Professor and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
- She codirects the NBER Gender in the Economy group.
- Her research examines the female labor force, earnings gaps, inequality, technological change, education and immigration through economic history.
- She received the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for advancing understanding of women's labor market outcomes.