Women's economic status in rural China: Household contributions to male-female disparities in the wage-labor market

World Development

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1011-1029

  Hare, Denise ^a,b,c  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; LABOR MARKET; RURAL SOCIETY; WAGE GAP; WOMENS STATUS;

CHINA;

EID: 0032799306     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00034-0     Document Type: Article

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