What HRM means for gender equality

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-40

  Dickens, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002923168     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 17488583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.1998.tb00157.x     Document Type: Article

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