Counting women in the Australian fire services

Australian Journal of Emergency Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 29-34

  Childs, Merilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MARKET; RESEARCH PRIORITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 70349092013     PISSN: 13241540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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