IN HONOR OF CLAUDIA GOLDIN, Nobel Laureate in the Economic Sciences.

Awarded for the first time in 2024 to Professor Céline Bessière and Dr. Sibylle Gollac “for outstanding research in the field of economic gender equality, particularly focusing on women’s ownership and economic autonomy.”

Bessière and Gollac extend Claudia Goldin’s work on the gender wage gap to the gender wealth gap, highlighting how family dynamics shape economic inequality. Their book, The Gender of Capital, reveals that despite legal equality, women remain financially disadvantaged compared to men, especially after divorce. Like Goldin, they use creative qualitative and quantitative methods to address data gaps. Their research challenges the notion that legal rights ensure economic parity, complementing Piketty’s work by exposing wealth distribution inequalities within families.

Find more on their work The Gender of Capital.

The jury included international researchers such as Iris Bohnet, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government and Co-director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School; Morten Nyegaard, Head of Nordics for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and Katrine Kielos-Marçal, author and economic journalist.