Gender and marital happiness in later life

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 735-757

  Kaufman, Gayle ^a   Taniguchi, Hiromi ^b  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Ideology; Later life; Marital happiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646535428     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X05285293     Document Type: Article

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