During an episode of NPR’s “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” in spring 2024, host Peter Sagal told his audience how excited he was to have a new Nobel laureate—economist Claudia Goldin ’67—as a guest.
“I swear to you, this is true: she ignored every other interview request except ours,” Sagal told his studio audience for the weekly humor-filled news-quiz program. “And so, we’re going to have her on—but there is one thing—everybody, when she comes on the air, we all have to pretend to be ‘All Things Considered.’”
In October 2023, the Arts & Sciences alum had become the first woman ever to win an unshared Nobel in economics—honored for her research on women’s earnings and labor-market participation in the 20th century.
And not only has Goldin studied women’s advancement in the workplace, she’s lived it: when she joined the Harvard faculty in 1990, she became the school’s first female tenured professor in economics.
