Just checking it out: Exploring the significance of informal gender divisions amongst american supermarket employees

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 129-133

  Tolich, Martin ^a   Briar, Celia ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER DISPARITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032783402     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0432.00076     Document Type: Article

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