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Employment and Education of Mexican-American Women: The Interplay of Modernity and Ethnicity in Eight Families

Maxine Baca Zinn
Harvard Educational Review April 1980, 50 (1) 47-62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.50.1.x5t1n1n3q888k324
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