The Changing Position of Women in Family and Society: A Cross-National Comparison

activity analysis areas Bantu behavior Canada Canadian Census child compared cultural Czechoslovakia division of labour divorce rate economic egalitarian employed women employment equality familial variables family roles female labour force Finland full-time gender Ghana girls graduate higher household housework husband ideology important increase indicate industry inequality institutions Journal of Marriage labour force participation less level of education lobola Lupri male marital satisfaction married women mass media men's modern Morioka mother norms Norway nuclear family number of women occupational options participation rates pattern percent percentage Poland political population position of women professional proportion of women relations relationship responsibility result rural contexts sample sector segregation sex role attitudes sex role orientation social social class socialist countries society Sociology Soviet Union spouses Statistics Statistics Canada structure Sweden Table tion traditional trend University University of Calgary variables wife wife's wives woman workers