Separate spheres or increasing equality? Changing gender beliefs in postwar Japan

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 184-201

  Lee, Kristen Schultz ^a   Tufiş, Paula A ^b   Alwin, Duane F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian families; Cohort; Gender; Sociohistorical change

Indexed keywords

EID: 76149124842     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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