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Article: Multilevel Nurturing; Organization Clones Itself to Help Poor and Working-Class Young Women Advance Beyond Minimum Wage
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 21, 1999
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There is a work force out there that many of us forget about: poor
and working-class women under the age of 21.
And the Young Women's Work Project (YWWP)--a San Francisco-based
nonprofit organization--is working to help make this group a little
more noticeable.
The organization has spent the past year conducting a survey of
young, poor and working-class girls and young women ages 12 to 20 to
see how they spend their time at work, school and after hours. It
asked what work they do--legal and illegal--and if they know their
rights and benefits on the job.
More than one in five young women surveyed is self-supporting.
Seventy-nine percent of these young women began working before they
were 16, ...