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Article: Relative Socioeconomic Status of Spouses, Gender Attitudes, and Attributes, and Marital Quality Experienced by Couples in Metropolitan Moscow [*].
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- Journal of Comparative Family Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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DANA VANNOY [**]
LISA A. CUBBINS [**]
Socioeconomic status is clearly important for marital relationships. Families with less stress created by economic hardship have greater opportunity to focus on family relationships and quality of life issues. For many years sociologists treated the family as one socioeconomic unit with one breadwinner (e.g., Parsons and Bales, 1953). For the last two decades, as women have entered labor forces around the world in increasing numbers, social individuation has not only changed reality but also the way sociologists look at families and family socioeconomic status. Often there are two earners and thus two sources of ...