Changing gender role attitudes

Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 156-176

  Scott, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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