Who gets the best deal from marriage: Women or men?

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 91-110

  Dempsey, Ken ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

gender consciousness and change; gender inequity; marriage; perceptions of marital benefits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040675527     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/144078302128756525     Document Type: Article

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