Cross-national comparison of attitudes toward fathers' and mothers' participation in household tasks and childcare

Sex Roles

Volumn 48, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 189-203

  Apparala, Malathi L ^a   Reifman, Alan ^a   Munsch, Joyce ^a,b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Childcare; Cross national; Household labor; Multilevel modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037236239     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022865002992     Document Type: Article

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