Claudia Goldin has spent her career pointing to the elephant in the room. The American labour economist recently won the Nobel Prize in economics for her research into why, despite equality measures, women still tend to earn less than men. She argues that it’s not the gap and earnings between men and women that matters but the gap between fathers and mothers.
A 2018 Danish study proves her point. It used data from 1980 to 2013 to show that mothers’ long-term earnings fell by 20% after they had children, while fathers’ earnings were unaffected.
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