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.
- Main subject
- Business and Work
Economics - ISBN
- 9781439913482 (cloth); 9781439913499 (pap.); 9781439913505 (ebook)
- Citation
- 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 June 30, 2022. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL900.
- Updated
- 12-02-2020