Halfway to gender equality in paid and unpaid work? Evidence from the multinational time-use study

Gendered Lives: Gender Inequalities in Production and Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-94

  Gershuny, Jonathan ^a   Kan, Man Yee ^b  

^a NUFFIELD COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781849806275.00010     Document Type: Chapter

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