Workforce Participation, Kinship and Sex Ratio Variations in India

Gender Technology And Development

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-112

  Agnihotri, Satish B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0005444528     PISSN: 09718524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097185249700100105     Document Type: Article

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