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Provides teenage girls with advice on money, discussing finding a job, spending, short-term and long-term saving, donating to charity, and investing.

Contains over twenty essays that offer varying perspectives on controversial issues related to the wage gap, such as whether it is narrowing, what causes it, and the effects of education on it.

The author examines the disadvantages of being a stay-at-home mom, maintaining that women who choose to give up a job or career leave themselves open to economic hardship should their spouse leave.

A collection of essays in which the authors examine the consequences of globalization on the lives of women, focusing on women who leave their homes in the Third World to work as nannies, maids, prostitutes, and in other "care" positions in wealthy countries.

Explores how the loss of blue-collar jobs has affected American society, focusing on the African-American urban poor who suffer from a lack of available training and education as well as declining government and private support of job programs, and outlines a series of programs that can help families of all races.

Twenty-one women, including a jockey, an orchestra conductor, a radio interviewer, chemist, firefighter, judge, carpenter, and rabbi, briefly discuss their work.

With seed money borrowed from a bank, a young woman and four of her friends in India change their lives by starting their own businesses.

Describes the various jobs which children performed during the early 1900s, the reasons for employment, working conditions, the efforts of reformers, and child labor today.

Eight women discuss their work in various sports-related careers, including referee, athletic trainer, agent, writer, and nutritionist, and describe the skills and education needed.

Explores the contributions to American culture by Latino Americans and the jobs surveys show Latinos typically hold in American society.