Work-family balance policies: Issues and development in the UK 1997-2005 in comparative perspective

Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 268-286

  Lewis, Jane ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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