Nurse or mechanic? The role of parental socialization and children's personality in the formation of sex-typed occupational aspirations

Social Forces

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-61

  Polavieja, Javier G ^a   Platt, Lucinda ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84907714573     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sou051     Document Type: Article

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