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Vive la difference? Egalitarianism, housework, and sexual frequency in marriage
1 October 2009
by Dr Sabino Kornrich, Julie Brines and Katrina Leupp
Changes in the nature of contemporary marriage have spurred a debate about the consequences of shifts to more egalitarian relationships, and media interest in the debate recently crystallized around a set of claims that men who participated in housework ‘got’ more sex. However, there is relatively little systematic or representative research that supports the claim that women, in essence, exchange sex for men’s participation in housework.
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