Women's Socioeconomic Characteristics and Marital Patterns in a Rapidly Developing Muslim Society, Kuwait.

Concomitant with rapid socioeconomic development female marriage patterns have undergone dramatic changes in the last three to four decades. Census data indicate that the proportion of single women in the population doubled, from 16% to 31%, between 1965 and 2000. The singulate mean age marriage i...

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Published in:	Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 163 - 184
Main Author:	Shah, Nasra M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Journal of Comparative Family Studies Spring 2004
Subjects:	Social conditions of women Marriage > Religious aspects Islam Kuwait
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost