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Do “greedy jobs” cause the gender pay gap?

Mothers’ careers suffer when parents maximise their combined income, says a new book

Editor's note: On October 9th 2023 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Claudia Goldin the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, widely known as the Nobel prize for economics.

This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “The greedy-jobs gap”

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