Toward the Europeanization of work-family policies?: The impact of the EU on policies for working parents

Gender Politics In The Expanding European Union Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 37-59

  Morgan, Kimberly J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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