"Wives who perceive housework arrangements as unfair are more likely to report lower levels of marital happiness. But wives who hold traditional gender attitudes expect less equality in the division of housework and less emotion work from their husbands. Consequently, traditional wives are less likely than their more progressive peers to view the division of household labor as unfair, or their husbands' emotion work as inadequate." This is a description of the assumptions and propositions of which theoretical model discussed by Wilcox and Nock?

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The equity model focuses on the fairness of the division of labor in marriage, and it predicts that wives who perceive housework arrangements as unfair are more likely to report lower levels of marital happiness.

"Wives Who Perceive Housework Arrangements as Unfair Are More Likely