Gender and Fairness: Marital Satisfaction in Two-Earner Couples

1998/08/01 by Jane Riblett Wilkie, Myra Marx Ferree, Kathryn Strother Ratcliff · 250 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Demographic economics #Division of labour #Economics #Emotional Labor in Professions #Equity (law) #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Perception #Political science #Psychology #Social psychology #Unpaid work #Work (physics) #Work-Family Balance Challenges

paper · doi:10.2307/353530

published in Journal of Marriage and the Family 60(3), 577 (Wiley)

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Abstract

Jane Riblett Wilkie, Myra Marx Ferree, Kathryn Strother Ratcliff, Gender and Fairness: Marital Satisfaction in Two-Earner Couples, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Aug., 1998), pp. 577-594

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