Egalitarianism and Oppression in Marriage

Abstract

In this paper, we explored the effects of doing research on seven researchers engaged in a study of couple decision-making. While not focused on oppression of women in marital decision-mak- ing, our interviews revealed a great deal of it. The seven members of our research team were affected, with age, marital status, and prior attitudes accounting for much of the variation in how deeply research- ers were affected. This study explores these issues and makes practi- cal and theoretical points about their importance.