Constrained labour: Maternal employment when children have disabilities

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 236-246

  Gordon, Meg ^a,c   Rosenman, Linda ^a   Cuskelly, Monica ^b  

^a School of Social Work and Applied Human Sciences   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Disabilities; Family work relationship; Handicapped; Labour force participation; Mothers; Single mothers; Working mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247354994     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: 14683148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.2006.00325.x     Document Type: Article

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