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The Cost of Being Female is a concise, well-organized guide to the pitfalls of being born a woman....[B]eing a woman is...expensive, both in terms of salary denied and the cost of poor education and health care. [This book] is not the place to go for historical insight or feminist political theory. Packed with information and to the point, it is more the Michelin guide to womanhood. -The Washington Post ?Headlee and Elfin use a sociological approach to show the cost (disadvantage) of being female in major areas of life....A good resource book for sociology and women's studies collections.?-Choice ?The Cost of Being Female is a concise, well-organized guide to the pitfalls of being born a woman....[B]eing a woman is...expensive, both in terms of salary denied and the cost of poor education and health care. [This book] is not the place to go for historical insight or feminist political theory. Packed with information and to the point, it is more the Michelin guide to womanhood.?-The Washington Post Headlee and Elfin use a sociological approach to show the cost (disadvantage) of being female in major areas of life....A good resource book for sociology and women's studies collections. -Choice

The Cost of Being Female is a concise, well-organized guide to the pitfalls of being born a woman....[B]eing a woman is...expensive, both in terms of salary denied and the cost of poor education and health care. [This book] is not the place to go for historical insight or feminist political theory. Packed with information and to the point, it is more the Michelin guide to womanhood. -The Washington Post

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SUE HEADLEE is Assistant Professor of Economic Policy in the Washington Semester Program at American University. She is the author of The Political Economy of The Family Farm: The Agrarian Roots of American Capitalism (Praeger, 1991). MARGERY ELFIN is Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Hood College.

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