Her money, her time: Women's earnings and their housework hours

Social Science Research

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 975-999

  Gupta, Sanjiv ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender display; Housework; Relative resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751050151     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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