Cross-national variations in the division of household labor

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1260-1271

  Davis, Shannon N ^a,c   Greenstein, Theodore N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross national; Division of household labor; Housework

Indexed keywords

EID: 10844228264     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00091.x     Document Type: Article

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