Men and women's agency and capabilities to create a worklife balance in diverse and changing institutional contexts

Children, Changing Families and Welfare States

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 267-295

  Hobson, Barbara ^a   Duvander, Ann Zofie ^a   Halldén, Karin ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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