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a. Men who earn less than their wives or are unemployed do less housework than their wives.
b. Women who earn more money than their husbands nevertheless do more housework.
c. There has been an increase in dual-earning couples and a trend to more egalitarian division o labor in the household.
d. All of the above are true.


D

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