Public policies and the employment of mothers: A cross-national study

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-54

  Gornick, Janet C ^a   Meyers, Marcia K ^b   Ross, Katherin E ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

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