Occupational gender segregation: Index measurement and econometric modeling

Demography

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 489-496

  Watts, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; OCCUPATIONS; PREJUDICE;

EID: 0032199407     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3004016     Document Type: Article

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