Gender, high- and low-schedule-control housework tasks, and psychological distress: A study of dual-earner couples

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 429-452

  Barnett, Rosalind C ^a   Shen, Yu Chu ^b  

^a Radcliffe College   (United States)

^b NONE

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