Geography of gender economic status in urban sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, 1960-1984

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-173

  Yeboah, Ian E A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; WOMENS STATUS;

GHANA;

EID: 0032428885     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1998.tb01562.x     Document Type: Article

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