Earning more and getting less: Why successful wives can't buy equality

Earning More and Getting Less : Why Successful Wives Can't Buy Equality

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-218

  Tichenor, Veronica Jaris ^a  

^a SUNY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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