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Socioeconomic Status, Gender Inequality and Women's Mental Health: Some Findings from the Canberra Mental Health Survey
Author(s) -
Mugford Stephen,
Lally Jim
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1979.tb00666.x
Subject(s) - mental health , socioeconomic status , marital status , inequality , publishing , project commissioning , scale (ratio) , psychology , gerontology , demography , sociology , medicine , geography , psychiatry , political science , population , mathematical analysis , mathematics , cartography , law
Data from the Canberra Mental Health Survey are utilized to answer questions concerning the mental health status of women (especially married women). Using the Langner Scale as the main index it is shown that there is a complex relationship between the socio‐economic status of a married woman's occupation, and the status of her husband's job. It is also shown that there is an association between sex, marital status and mental health that runs in the direction of Jessie Bernard's summary ‘marriage is good for men, but not for women’.