Integrating occupations: Changing occupational sex segregation in the United States from 2000 to 2014

Demographic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 127-154

  Roos, Patricia A ^a   Stevens, Lindsay M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85040680661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.5     Document Type: Article

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