Women's working futures - Views, policies and cohoices

Foresight

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 53-60

  Merkes, Monika ^a,b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Demographics; Social policy; Women; Working practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346401174     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636680310508991     Document Type: Review

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