The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Author
Yasemin Besen-Cassino
Content
x + 194 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Philadelphia: Temple University Press
Description
Focuses on people living or attending college in a primarily white suburb near a major metropolitan area of the United States. Based on in-depth interviews with teenagers currently working as babysitters and in retail jobs, a survey of college students ages 18–24 about their previous work experiences, and a study of bias in potential employers of babysitters.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2018. Sylvia. Accessed July 6, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL900.
