Scaling back: Dual-earner couples' work-family strategies

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 995-1006

  Becker, Penny Edgell ^a   Moen, Phyllis ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual earner families; Life course; Scaling back; Work family strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039374468     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/354019     Document Type: Review

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