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Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women's lives. In her critical new book, Yasemin Besen-Cassino examines the origins of the gender wage gap by looking at the teenage labor force. Because of discrimination in the market, most teenage girls who start part-time work as babysitters and in other freelance jobs fail to make the same wages as teenage boys, who move into employee-type jobs. The "cost" of being...
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