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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: How do the findings by Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin apply to working women in India?
Description: This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Prof Claudia Goldin for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes. Prof Goldin’s work has looked at women’s participation in the labour force, changes across decades and the gender gap in earnings that continues to exist even today. In fact, the 2023 Global Gender Gap report pegged the gap score at 68.4%, and said it would take 131 years to equalise earnings between men and women at the current rate of progress. But how does India fare in all of this? A State of...