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Career and Marriage in the Age of the Pill

American Economic Review, 2000
Genuine change in the economic and social status of U.S. women did not emanate simply from their increased labor-force participation, but rather, from their increase in professions and as “career women.” Those changes first began in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. We examine here one factor of momentous importance in this break with the past.
Lawrence F. Katz, Claudia Goldin
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Sex differences in age at marriage

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1970
The subject of this talk is the ages of brides and grooms and how the relativity of the ages of such marriage partners has changed in England and Wales over the years. It is a well-documented subject in the sense that square tables showing the combinations of ages of marrying couples have been published annually since the middle of the nineteenth ...
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Birth Order and Age at Marriage*

British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1966
Two experiments are reported which were based on Schachter's (1959) work on birth order and affiliation in an anxiety provoking situation. Assuming first borns (1) are more dependent than later borns and (2) have learned, more than later borns, that being with others in an anxiety provoking situation reduces their anxiety, it was ...
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Betulah 'A Girl of Marriageable Age'

Vetus Testamentum, 1972
Hebrew lexicons 1) and modern translations 2) of the Old Testament generally translate betzlah as 'virgin', though occasionally, where this translation is inappropriate3), different terms are used. It is the contention of this article that betzlah has no more reference to virginity than the English word 'girl'. Rather it denotes a 'girl of marriageable
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The Factor of Age in Marriage

American Journal of Sociology, 1934
Age at marriage is a convenient starting point in study both the static and the dynamic aspects of a human population. The predominating age at which persons of each sex enter into marriage is a highly important factor in determining the potential natural increase of the population.
Otis D. Duncan, John H. McClure, James Salisbury,, Richard H. Simmons   +3 more
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Age Heterogamy in Marriage

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1985
This paper examines "May-September" and "May-December" marriages--that is marriages in which spouses are separated by unconventional age differences. These marriages are not interesting for their numbers; only about 8% of marriages are age-heterogamous.
Hernan Vera, Donna H. Berardo, Felix M. Berardo   +2 more
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Age At Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Italy

Journal of Family History, 1990
The family forms found in central and northeastern Italy in the nineteenth century contrasted sharply with those found in the south, with complex forms generally charac terizing the former ureas and nuclear forms predominating in the latter. Early marriage and a neolocal form of household formation prevailed in most of the south, while later marriage ...
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Marriage and Middle Age

The Family Coordinator, 1976
Students in the field of human development recognize that there is an element of convenience, if not pure arbitrariness, in the way we conceptualize and segment the life cycle. Philosophical, folk and literary definitions compete with those of social science.
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Marriage in the Age of Revolution

2005
As chapter 6 indicated, some of the scholars who opposed the rule prohibiting marriages between ’Alid women and non-’Alid men in previous centuries tended to cultivate anti-Hadawi sentiments. Since the 1962 revolution the discourse of those who had reluctantly accommodated to this rule focuses on their dual exclusion from the supreme leadership and ...
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Age Relationships at Marriage, by Marital Status and Age at Marriage

Marriage and Family Living, 1956
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