Women's work in UK official statistics and the 1980 reclassification of occupations

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 307-325

  Blackwell, Louisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Occupational classification; Occupational crowding; Occupational sex segregation; Warwick occupational conversion program; Women's work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648998     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00204     Document Type: Article

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