... % although the majority of women are still paid less than men, anti discrimination laws and higher education of women meant that the gap between women and men pay is reduced. Allan and Crow suggested that "marriage is less embedded within the economic system," and the removal of the bread winner role means that women no longer depend on men for income ... importance of marriage is depleting, in fact there's a high rate of re-marriages which indicates that people still value lawful matrimony and are not giving up on marriage. However Graham Allan and Graham Crow (2001) explain that marria...

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