Gender and Work in South Africa: What Can Time-Use Data Reveal?

Feminist Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 33-66

  Floro, Maria S ^a   Komatsu, Hitomi ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; labor force participation; South Africa; Time allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859092455     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2011.614954     Document Type: Article

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