Relieving the Time Squeeze? Effects of a White-Collar Workplace Change on Parents

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1014-1029

  Hill, Rachelle ^a,c   Tranby, Eric ^b,d   Kelly, Erin ^a   Moen, Phyllis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

gender; interventions; parent child relationships; parenting; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879807568     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12047     Document Type: Article

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