“…The current study examined Mexican-origin husbands' marital satisfaction as predicted by the three-way interaction between wives' employment status, husbands' and wives' gender role attitudes, beyond the effects of dispositional and structural factors that have been empirically or theoretically linked to marital satisfaction: couples' legal marital status, husbands' years in the US, age of firstborn child, and additional adults living in the home (Casas & Ortiz, 1985;Cleary & Mechanic, 1983;Helms et al, 2011;Kurdek & Schmitt, 1986;Markides, Roberts-Jolly, Ray, Hoppe, & Rudkin, 1999;Rhyne, 1981). Informed by Peplau's framework and the extant literature on marital satisfaction, wives' employment status, and gender role attitudes, I hypothesized that husbands' marital satisfaction would be predicted by the interaction between spouses' gender role attitudes and wives' employment status.…”