Becoming adult: The persisting importance of class and gender

Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 19-39

  Schoon, Ingrid ^a  

^a University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate   (United Kingdom)

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