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‘It Never Struck Me as Female’: Investigating Men's Entry into Female-dominated Occupations

BARBARA BAGILHOLE Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK Phone: 01509 223380 E-mail: [email protected]Correspondence[email protected]
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SIMON CROSS Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK Phone: 01509 223380 E-mail: [email protected]
Pages 35-48 | Published online: 21 Aug 2006

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