shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 11 2008 | women, education, south asia
Great PhD paper about parental involvement and spouse choice in urban India. She did a lot of her research using online marriage sites. I actually read a little blurb on this in the Atlantic Monthly - very cool.
Quoted: When parents are involved in mate choice, sons are significantly less likely to marry college-educated women and women engaged in the labor force.
- shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 15 2008 | women, education, race, sociology, books
This book looks worth checking out.
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