Marital Equality: Its Relationship to the Well-Being of Husbands and Wives

Abstract

Introductory Overview His and Her Marriage Research from the Seventies Social Roles and Psychological Well-Being Paid Employment vs Full-Time Homemaking The Relationship between Marital Power and Partners' Well-Being Relationship Equality What Is It? How Has It Been Measured? Why Does It Matter? Intimacy, Emotion Work and Husbands' and Wives' Well-Being His and Her Marriage of the 90s Why Is Relationship Equality So Difficult To Achieve?