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Consciously Creating Equality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2020

Francine M. Deutsch
Affiliation:
Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts
Ruth A. Gaunt
Affiliation:
University of Lincoln
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Creating Equality at Home
How 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare
, pp. 29 - 92
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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