Work-family conflict related to culture and gender

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-273

  Mortazavi, Shahrnaz ^a   Pedhiwala, Nisreen ^b   Shafiro, Maggie ^c   Hamme, Leslie ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Morehead Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Gender; Horizontal idiocentrism allocentrism; Individualism collectivism; Work family conflict

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449640169     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: 14693615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668800902779023     Document Type: Article

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