Equality Is Bliss? Relationship Quality and the Gender Division of Household Labor

Journal of Family Issues

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 972-992

  Barstad, Anders ^a  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

dyadic relationship quality satisfaction; gender and family; household labor; intimate relationships; quantitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899931317     PISSN: 0192513X     EISSN: 15525481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192513X14522246     Document Type: Article

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