The challenges of American and Indian women from a Goldin lens
Live MintRecognition for Claudia Goldin’s work may have come late but for several reasons it might be all the sweeter. Goldin’s body of work has already had a major impact on several key gender equality issues, such as women’s education, participation in the labour force, gender wage gaps and discrimination in hiring. Goldin’s U-shaped curve made eminent sense in the Indian context where poorer women work out of necessity and exit the labour force when household income rises. In contrast to Becker’s abstract utility-maximizing individual, Goldin provides nuanced explanations of the shifts in women’s labour force participation by placing their aspirations and decision-making in changing socio-historical contexts at the forefront. Thus, in her seminal work on career and family, Goldin studied several cohorts of college-educated women who made decisions to prioritise either career or family within the structural constraints of their time.
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