Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes

Michael Baker1,2, Kirsten Cornelson3

  • 1Department of Economics, University of Toronto, 150 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G7, Canada. baker@chass.utoronto.ca.

Demography
|September 16, 2018
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