Telling stories about gender and effort: Social science narratives about who works hard for the money

The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 193-217

  Bielby, William T ^a   Bielby, Denise D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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