Following the success of our first public lecture, we are pleased to announce the next RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture, organized in collaboration with the Humboldt University of Berlin! This year, RFBerlin welcomes Nobel Prize laureate Claudia Goldin with her lecture “Why Women Won”.

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and holds the Lee and Ezpeleta Professorship of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University.

She was the director of the NBER’s Development of the American Economy program from 1989 to 2017 and is a co-director of the NBER’s Gender in the Economy group. Goldin was awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”

As 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.

In the upcoming lecture, Professor Goldin will explore how we moved from a world in which discrimination against women was not recognized as an issue, in which women were routinely and legally fired when they were married or when they became pregnant, and in which they could not always get a credit card in their name or pick their own name legally, to the world we now live in, however imperfect.

A Q&A session will follow the lecture, providing attendees the chance to engage directly with the speaker.

The registration form will be published soon.

In the meantime feel free to check out Professor Goldin’s prize lecture “An Evolving Economic Force”.