This economist has some Nobel Prize-winning answers on why women make less than men

By ROBIN ABCARIAN

Why don't women make as much as men? Ask Goldin. — AFP

AN American woman has won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work studying the economic lives of American women.

How poetic is that?

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