Outsourcing the gender factory: Living arrangements and service expenditures on female and male tasks

Social Forces

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 305-322

  De Ruijter, Esther ^a   Treas, Judith K ^b   Cohen, Philip N ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 27144502647     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2005.0124     Document Type: Review

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