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Work and Family in Relation to Gender

Finding middle ground: the relationship between cultural schemas and working mothers’ work-family strategies

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Pages 331-356 | Received 17 Jul 2018, Accepted 14 Oct 2019, Published online: 30 Oct 2019

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