Marital conflict about the division of household labor and paid work

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 958-969

  Kluwer, Esther S ^a   Heesink, José A M ^a   Van De Vliert, Evert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dissatisfaction; Division of labor; Household labor; Marital conflict; Paid work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039924567     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353983     Document Type: Article

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