Introduction: Changing lives and new challenges

Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-15

  Scott, Jacqueline ^a   Dex, Shirley ^b   Joshi, Heather ^b   Purcell, Kate ^c   Elias, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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