Women's economic standing, marriage timing, and cross-national contexts of gender

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-286

  Ono, Hiromi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national; Gender; Income; Marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038688447     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2003.00275.x     Document Type: Article

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