Shared or separate? Money management and changing norms of gender equality among Norwegian couples

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-55

  Knudsen, Knud ^a   Wrness, Kari ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Family models; Family provision; Gender equality; Genuine pooling; Income allocation systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649107604     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: 14693615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668800802009406     Document Type: Article

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