Advancing a career focus on work and the family: Insights from the life course perspective

The Work and Family Handbook: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives and Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 189-208

  Sweet, Stephen ^a   Moen, Phyllis ^b  

^a ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203885383-18     Document Type: Chapter

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