Division of household labor and family functioning in off-reservation Navajo Indian families

Family Relations

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 255-261

  Hossain, Ziarat ^a  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Family functioning; Household labor; Navajo indian

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035597490     PISSN: 01976664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2001.00255.x     Document Type: Article

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