The Division of Household Labor: Longitudinal Changes and Within-Couple Variation

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 944-952

  Lam, Chun Bun ^a   McHale, Susan M ^a   Crouter, Ann C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Division of labor; Income; Multilevel models; Power; Work family balance; Work hours

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866745328     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.01007.x     Document Type: Article

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