Gender, computing and the organization of working time: Public/private comparisons in the Australian context

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 320-337

  Diamond, Chris ^a   Whitehouse, Gillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computing; Gender; Pay equity; Public sector; Working time

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547312978     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691180701409879     Document Type: Conference Paper

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