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Work and Family across the Life Course

Confident, cautiously confident or concerned? Working life profiles, capabilities, and expectations for work-family reconciliation among young Finnish women

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Pages 312-333 | Received 30 May 2021, Accepted 06 Jan 2022, Published online: 20 Jan 2022

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