%0 Journal Article %T Women's Employment and the Gain to Marriage: The Specialization and Trading Model %A Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer %J - %D 1997 %R 10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.431 %X This chapter critically examines the hypothesis that women's rising employment levels have increased their economic independence and hence have greatly reduced the desirability of marriage. Little .. %U https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.431