At home on the electronic frontier: Work, gender and the information highway

New Technology, Work and Employment

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-33

  Bryant, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABOR MARKET; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 0034064161     PISSN: 02681072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-005X.00062     Document Type: Article

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