The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education, Motherhood, and Women as Main Earners in Europe

European Sociological Review

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 465-481

  Klesment, Martin ^a   Van Bavel, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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