Domestic labor and marital satisfaction: How much or how satisfied?

Marriage and Family Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 49-67

  Stevens, Daphne Pedersen ^a   Kiger, Gary ^b,c   Mannon, Susan E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Sociology ^*

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Childcare; Domestic labor; Domestic labor satisfaction; Emotion work; Marital satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 30544435911     PISSN: 01494929     EISSN: 15409635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J002v37n04_04     Document Type: Article

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