Making the Case: The Women's Convention and Equal Employment Opportunity in Japan

Comparative Sociology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 388-404

  Liu, Dongxiao ^a   Boyle, Elizabeth Heger ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR POLICY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

JAPAN;

EID: 0347664977     PISSN: 15691322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156851801753290397     Document Type: Article

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