women and work – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

The Harvard Gazette reports: "Women mostly stayed in workforce as pandemic unfolded, defying forecasts"

May 18, 2022

Harvard Pop Center faculty member Claudia Goldin, PhD, has authored a working paper titled “Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women” that reveals that the stresses experienced by certain women (depending on education,…

Married women who retire when their husbands do may be making a financial mistake

June 19, 2018

An NBER working paper by faculty member Nicole Maestas, PhD, that illustrates how the financial returns for working later in life may be greater for women than for men is catching attention in the media.