Paid and Unpaid Work: Can Policy Improve Gender Inequalities?

Sharing Lives, Dividing Assets: An Inter-Disciplinary Study

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 41-59

  Scott, Jacqueline ^a,b   Dex, Shirley ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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