Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Labor - Wages & Compensation

The gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women's lives.

Most approaches to explaining the gap focus on adult employment despite the fact that many Americans begin working well before their education is completed. In her critical and compelling new book, The Cost of Being a Girl, 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.

Besen-Cassino's findings are disturbing. Because of discrimination...

The gender wage gap is one of the most persistent problems of labor markets and women's lives.

Most approaches to explaining the gap focus on adult employment despite the fact that many Americans begin working well before their education is completed. In her critical and compelling new book, The Cost of Being a Girl, 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.

Besen-Cassino's findings are disturbing. Because of discrimination...

This is the true story of how an Uber driver experienced face-to-face fear from drug dealers, gang bangers and criminals as a taxi driver for Uber.

Mitchell Martinez, the Uber-Groover, gives his account of driving for the taxi service Uber, with over 1,000 passengers who experienced the rides of their lives in cities from San Diego to San Francisco.

A "Jerry Springer saga on wheels," Mitchell Martinez gives his true confession and documents his experience of driving for Uber while coping with a war-time injury he incurred while serving in the United States Army during the...