Gender Relations and Housing: A Cross-community Analysis

Gender Technology And Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-86

  Shrestha, Girija ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER RELATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; NEPAL; POPULATION; RESEARCH; RESEARCH REPORT; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; SOUTHERN ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STUDIES; THAILAND;

ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER RELATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HOUSING; NEPAL; POPULATION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTHEASTERN ASIA; SOUTHERN ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STUDIES; THAILAND;

ASIA; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NEPAL; POPULATION; RESEARCH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; THAILAND;

EID: 0033641032     PISSN: 09718524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/097185240000400103     Document Type: Article

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