Maintaining Men's Dominance: Negotiating Identity and Power When She Earns More.
This article examines the power dynamics in marriages where wives earn substantially more than their husbands based on in-depth interviews with husbands and wives in 30 couples. The results demonstrate how normative gender expectations constrain interactions between spouses and how spouses in these...
| Published in: | Sex Roles Vol. 53; no. 3/4; pp. 191 - 206 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
August 2005
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