Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
Thank you for joining us at the LSE for this evening's event,
which is hosted by the LSE's Department of Economics and the journal Economica.
World welcome to the audience here in the theater, but also to the many who are joining us online.
My name is Francesco Caselli.
I am the Norman Sosno Professor of Economics, and I am the head of the Department of Economics here at the LSE.
And as such, I am ex officio the chair of the Board of Economica, which is the LSE's international peer-reviewed
economics journal history and that recently celebrated its 100th anniversary.
This evening we are very pleased to welcome Professor Claudia Goldin to the LSE to deliver her lecture Why Women Won.
How, when and why did women in the U.S.
Obtain legal rights equal to men regarding workplace, marriage, family, social security,
criminal justice, credit markets and other parts of the economy and society?
These are the questions that Professor Goldin will be answering tonight.
Professor Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics
and holds the Lee and Espelita Professorship of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
She has been the director of the MBR's Development of the American Economy Program
from 1989 to 2017 and is the co-director of the MBR's Gender in the Economy Group.
Her latest book is Career and Family, Women's Century-Long Journey Towards Equity,