Gender segregation and bargaining in domestic labour: Evidence from longitudinal time-use data

Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 153-173

  Kan, Man Yee ^a   Gershuny, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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