Husbands' participation in domestic labor: Interactive effects of wives' and husbands' gender ideologies

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 585-595

  Greenstein, Theodore N ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Division of household labor; Domestic labor; Gender ideology; Housework

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040833324     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/353719     Document Type: Article

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