Who is happier: The housewife or working wife?
by Beja L Edsel MPRA Paper No.37551, March 2012 The earlier studies that came out around the 1970s, as more and more women started to leave the homes, so to speak, and took paid work found no statistically significant difference in the happiness between the housewife and the working wife. This paper revisits the same [...]
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