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Title: The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
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1. Besen-Cassino, Yasemin
The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keyword(s): Employment, In-School; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Teenagers; Wage Gap

The author examines the origins of the gender wage gap by looking at the teenage labor force. The NLSY97 is the central quantitative dataset used in this book. Chapter titles include "Origins of the Gender Wage Gap," "Babysitters," "Shop Girls," "Race, Class and Gender Inequality," and "Long-Term Effects."
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Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018.