Women's Economic Independence and the Probability of Divorce

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The Prevalence and Correlates of Multipartnered Fertility Among Urban U.S. Parents (2006, background): “Drug or alcohol abuse and infidelity within marriage are strongly associated with low marital quality and divorce (Amato & Rogers, 1997; Sayer & Bianchi, 2000; White, 1990).”
Division of Household Labor and Marital Satisfaction in China, Japan, and Korea (2013, background): “Some researchers have found no evidence for a negative relation between female employment (or female share of household income) and marital stability or satisfaction (Oppenheimer, 1997; Rogers & DeBoer, 2001; Sayer & Bianchi, 2000).”
Costs and Rewards of Children: The Effects of Becoming a Parent on Adults' Lives (2003, background): “The question on the effect of the presence of children on marital dissolution is still debatable (e.g., see Ono, 1998; Sayer & Bianchi, 2000; South & Spitze, 1986) and is beyond the scope of this paper.”
The Marriages of Equally Dependent Spouses (2001, background): “Recent research by Sayer and Bianchi (2000) confirmed this basic point.”
His and Her Perspectives: Gender Ideology, Work-to-Family Conflict, and Marital Satisfaction (2010, background): “For instance, studies have generally shown that wives’ incomes and economic independence bear stronger relationships to reduced marital quality and marital dissolution when men hold traditional gender ideologies (Brennan et al. 2001; Sayer & Bianchi, 2000 ).”