{"product_id":"the-cost-of-being-a-girl-working-teens-and-the-origins-of-the-gender-wage-gap-9781439913499","title":"The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women's lives. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMost approaches to explaining the gap focus on \u003ci\u003eadult\u003c\/i\u003e employment despite the fact that many Americans begin working well before their education is completed. In her critical and compelling new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Being a Girl, \u003c\/i\u003e Yasemin Besen-Cassino examines the origins of the gender wage gap by looking at the teenage labor force, where comparisons between boys and girls ought to show no difference, but do.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBesen-Cassino's findings are disturbing. 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 a girl is also psychological; when teenage girls work retail jobs in the apparel industry, they have lower wages and body image issues in the long run.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough in-depth interviews and surveys with workers and employees, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Being a Girl\u003c\/i\u003e puts this alarming social problem-which extends to race and class inequality-in to bold relief. Besen-Cassino emphasizes that early inequalities in the workplace ultimately translate into greater inequalities in the overall labor force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYasemin Besen-Cassino\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eConsuming Work: Youth Labor in America\u003c\/i\u003e (Temple); co-author (with Dan Cassino) of \u003ci\u003eConsuming Politics: Jon Stewart, Branding, and the Youth Vote in America\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor (with Michael Kimmel) of \u003ci\u003eThe Jessie Bernard Reader\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50850202353938,"sku":"9781439913499","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ec133996-109d-47ef-909b-8f37fb5623c1.jpg?v=1737408155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cost-of-being-a-girl-working-teens-and-the-origins-of-the-gender-wage-gap-9781439913499","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}