Nordic fertility patterns: Compatible with gender equality?

Politicising Parenthood in Scandinavia: Gender Relations in Welfare States

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-76

  Rønsen, Marit ^a   Skrede, Kari ^a  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

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