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Gender Roles in the Family: Change and Stability in Vietnam
John Knodel, Vu Manh Loi, Rukmalie Jayakody, and Vu Tuan Huy

Gender Roles in the Family: Change and Stability in Vietnam

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Report No. 04-559
May 2004

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Gender Roles in the Family:
Change and Stability in Vietnam

John Knodel
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI jknodel@umich.edu Vu Manh Loi
Institute of Sociology
Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
27 Tran Xuan Soan
Hanoi, Vietnam

Rukmalie Jayakody
Department of

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