Work and marriage: mother-daughter similarities in Sri Lanka.
This paper examines generational interaction and gender roles in Sri Lanka by focusing on the mother-daughter dyad with regard to the issues of marriage and work. Using survey and focus group data from the Kalutara district for 288 pairs of young daughters aged 15-30 and their coresident mothers, w...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 219 - 242 |
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Journal of Comparative Family Studies
Spring 1999
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