Stay in the game: Gender, family formation and alternative trajectories in the academic life course

Social Forces

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1591-1621

  Wolfinger, Nicholas H ^a   Mason, Mary Ann ^b   Goulden, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 67651230673     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0182     Document Type: Article

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