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Occupational Positions and Class Identifications of Married Working Women: A Test of the Asymmetry Hypothesis

Data for 566 married working women from the 1960, 1964,1968, and 1970 Survey Research Center election studies are examined in order to determine the relative impacts of wives' and husbands' occupational positions on wives' class identifications. The results suggest that traditional assumptions that wives derive their class positions and identifications exclusively or predominantly from the occupational positions of their husbands do not hold for working wives.