The cost of being female /
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| Author / Creator: | Headlee, Sue E. (Sue Eleanor), 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 229 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11213758 |
| Summary: | The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents, say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. They demonstrate their thesis by constructing an index that documents the costs of discrimination against women in five aspects of life: economic, political, social, education, and health. The index compares the costs for American women with those of women in Sweden, Norway, France and China, and measures the costs for three time periods: 1990s, 1950s, and the 19th century. The authors interviewed over 70 women, providing a human approach to the statistics of earnings, occupations, political participation, marriage, divorce, childrearing, education, and women's health. The women's narratives are living testimony to the experiences of the costs of being female. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 229 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780313390005 0313390002 9780313023934 031302393X 0275956881 9780275956882 0275955362 9780275955366 |