Faculty Experts

Dr. Yasemin Besen-Cassino

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Chairperson, Sociology

Email: beseny@montclair.edu
Office: 973-655-7229
Faculty Profile

Expert on the gender wage gap, gender studies, and youth, work and labor.

Areas of Expertise

• Gender Studies
• Youth, Work and Labor

Books

• The Cost of Being a Girl: Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap

Media

• Teens face a gender pay gap, too. Here’s how to help them navigate it. (Washington Post)
• The gender pay gap isn’t just about what you make. It’s about what you do (CNN Money)
• How babysitting can set up teen girls to earn less when they enter the workforce (Philly.com)

• DON’T TELL AMERICA THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD (The Atlantic)

• American teenagers are losing babysitting gigs as helicopter parents demand teens complete training courses, plan ‘enriching’ activities’ and even spy on them with CAMERAS (Daily Mail)