Policy pathways to gender power: State-level effects on the US division of housework

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-260

  Cooke, Lynn Prince ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; GENDER ROLE; LABOR PARTICIPATION; WOMENS ORGANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847788508     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: 14697823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279406000584     Document Type: Article

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