Role balance among white married couples

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1083-1098

  Marks, Stephen R ^a   Huston, Ted L ^b   Johnson, Elizabeth M ^c   MacDermid, Shelley M ^d  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c 1267 CDFS Building ^*  (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Leisure; Marriage; Multiple roles; Parenthood; Role balance; Work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035511551     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.01083.x     Document Type: Article

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