Reassessing paid work and women’s empowerment: Lessons from the global economy

Feminisms in development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 201-213

  Pearson, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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