Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia

Gender Equality and Welfare Politics in Scandinavia: The Limits of Political Ambition?

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-42

  Borchorst, Anette ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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