Gender differences in children's pathways to independent mobility

Children's Geographies

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-401

  Brown, Belinda ^a   Mackett, Roger ^b   Gong, Yi ^b   Kitazawa, Kay ^b   Paskins, James ^b  

^a YOUNG FOUNDATION   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Gender differences; Independent mobility; Peer groups; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957763273     PISSN: 14733285     EISSN: 14733277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14733280802338080     Document Type: Article

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