Changing attitudes toward the male breadwinner, female homemaker family model: Influences of women's employment and education over the lifecourse

Social Forces

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 299-324

  Cunningham, Mick ^a  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 57049138311     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0097     Document Type: Article

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