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The working lives of married women in their middle years before statutory retirement age and after children enter secondary education, have not received a great deal of attention in the literature on women’s labour. Yet this is a period when many changes typically occur in women’s domestic and family lives, and when their decisions about working life are of particular interest.
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Yeandle, S. (1987). Married Women at Midlife: Past Experience and Present Change. In: Allatt, P., Keil, T., Bryman, A., Bytheway, B. (eds) Women and the Life Cycle. Explorations in Sociology.. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18951-9_9
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