Restructuring gender relations: Women's labour market participation and earnings inequality among households

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 242-256

  Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth ^a   Mastekaasa, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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