Husbands, wives, and housework: Graduates of Stanford and Tokyo universities

Feminist Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 97-127

  Strober, Myra H ^a   Chan, Agnes Miling Kaneko ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bargaining power; Economics of gender; Egalitarian task arrangements; Gender ideology; Household tasks; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842538415     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135457098338329     Document Type: Article

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