Gender, the home-work link, and space-time patterns of nonemployment activities

Economic Geography

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 370-394

  Kwan, Mei Po ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Fixity constraint; Gender; Home work link

Indexed keywords

COMMUTING; GENDER RELATIONS; JOURNEY TO WORK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

COLUMBUS; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033500508     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.1999.tb00126.x     Document Type: Article

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