Demographic trends in social work over a quarter-century in an increasingly female profession

Social Work

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 103-114

  Schilling, Robert ^a   Morrish, Jennifer Naranjo ^b   Liu, Gan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

Author keywords

Demographics; Ethnicity; Gender; Race; Social work

Indexed keywords

EID: 45149123598     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: 15456846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/53.2.103     Document Type: Article

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