Updating the “gender contract”? Childcare reforms in the nordic countries in the 1990s

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 81-89

  Leira, Arnlaug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 84979995915     PISSN: 08038740     EISSN: 1502394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/080387402760262177     Document Type: Article

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