Kirk Scott, the Institute for Futures Studies and Lund University Union formation and entry into parenthood are perhaps the most important transitions to adulthood. While much is known about the family

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Individual- and country-level factors are brought together in simultaneous analyses of their relationships with perceived stress and work-family conflict for women. The hypotheses predicting higher st

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2012. Social Forces, 90:795-816. Abstract Using Swedish panel data, we assess whether the gender gap in supervisory authority has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent the g

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