What determines change in the division of housework over the course of marriage?

International Sociology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 289-307

  Grunow, Daniela ^a   Schulz, Florian ^b   Blossfeld, Hans Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

division of labour; event history analysis; gender inequality; Germany; housework; marriage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860507598     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: 14617242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580911423056     Document Type: Article

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