Developing policy to address the lived experiences of working mothers

Emerging Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender in Theory, Policy, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 101-122

  Gatta, Mary ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

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