1) In what ways have relationships changed over time, especially in the "gendered domains" of relationships?
2) What do you think about how the husband's contribution to household work was measured in this paper?
3) What are some potential limitations of the 1997 sample? How is the 1997 sample different from the 1980 sample?
4) What are "traditional" gender roles? Why would we expect changes in gender-role expectations to affect the quality of marriages?
5) This study uses reports of both spouses attitudes about fairness and conflict, however the attitudes of both spouses are reported by one spouse. How might this affect the results of the analysis?
6) The results of this study imply that changes in gender-role expectations cannot explain the observed increases in marital discord. Do you think that the results might be different if the authors had used a variable that measured whether both spouses' gender-role expectations were in accordance with each other? In other words, is it changes in gender-role expectations per se that would cause conflict or the different expectations between spouses that would cause conflict?