The household division of labour: Changes in families' allocation of paid and unpaid work

Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 234-267

  Harkness, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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