

{"id":2329,"date":"2018-10-10T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2018-10-10T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T16:21:04","slug":"the-gender-pay-gap-oct-15-author-talk-with-yasemin-besen-cassino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2018\/10\/10\/the-gender-pay-gap-oct-15-author-talk-with-yasemin-besen-cassino\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gender Pay Gap: Oct. 15 Author Talk with Yasemin Besen-Cassino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/files\/2018\/10\/Cost-of-Being-A-Girl_sm-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2332 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/files\/2018\/10\/Cost-of-Being-A-Girl_sm-1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover for Yasemin Besen-Cassino's book, The Cost of Being a Girl\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>On Monday, October 15, Temple University Press author <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yasemin Besen-Cassino will be at Temple University\u2019s Paley Library to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/library.temple.edu\/beyondthepage\/event\/cost-being-girl-author-yasemin\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">discuss her book,<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tupress.temple.edu\/book\/20000000009167\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to her research, the gender pay gap starts with part-time work in the teen years and persists into adulthood. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yasemin Besen-Cassino is a Professor of Sociology at Montclair State University. Her research focuses on work, gender, and youth and has appeared in many sociology journals such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contexts<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Journal of Contemporary Ethnography<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theory &amp; Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NWSAJ<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Education &amp; Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In addition, her work has been featured in many popular venues such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlantic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, CNN, MTV, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fortune<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ms. Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2333\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/files\/2018\/10\/Besen-Cassino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2333\" class=\"wp-image-2333 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/files\/2018\/10\/Besen-Cassino-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of Professor Besen-Cassion\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Besen-Cassino<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Want to learn more about gender pay gap ahead of Monday\u2019s program? Read about how the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelily.com\/the-gender-pay-gap-affects-teens-too-heres-how-to-prepare-them-for-it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">gender pay gap affects teens<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Lily <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and check out Dr. Besen-Cassino\u2019s op-eds on equal pay <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/mar\/14\/gender-pay-gap-teenage-workers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guardian<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/msmagazine.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/cost-girl-working-teens-origins-gender-wage-gap\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Ms. Magazine<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This program will be held at 2:00 PM in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/SzQphR9hBfA2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Paley Library<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lecture Hall. As always, our programs are free and open to all. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-cost-of-being-a-girl-author-yasemin-besen-cassino-on-the-gender-pay-gap-tickets-48657944221\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registration requested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 15, Temple University Press author Yasemin Besen-Cassino will be at Temple University\u2019s Paley Library to discuss her book, The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap. According to her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2018\/10\/10\/the-gender-pay-gap-oct-15-author-talk-with-yasemin-besen-cassino\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[15,10],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs","category-top-news","tag-beyondthepagetu","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PKHL-Bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}