CRTF #16 Conjugal Roles and Domestic Chores Factors: 12. Changes in Money Management
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- Conjugal Roles and Domestic Chores Factors: 12. Changes in Money Management
- Pahl (1993) looked at how couples managed their money, with these results:
- Husbands Controlled - 22 Couples
- No joint bank account
- He paid wife a weekly allowance. If the wife is earning her own money it went in the housekeeping allowance
- Wife Controlled Pooling - 27 Couples
- Joint Bank account
- Wife did finances, paid the bills, check statements, typical of middle income households, where both parents earner
- Wife Controlled - 14 Couples
- No joint account typically no bank account at all, all operations in cash
- Typical of low income working class families where neither had qualificaitons
- Husbands Controlled Pooling - 39 Couples
- Husband paid main bills
- Checks statements etc.
- Joint bank account
- Typical of higher levels of income, wife in poorer job
- He studies 102 couples, all with one child under 16 years. The sample was too small to be representative but it covered a wife mix of the population.
- Husbands Controlled - 22 Couples
- Laurie and Gershuny (2000)
- Concluded that while there was some evidence of a movement towards greater equality
- "we are still far from a position in which the balance between the sexes in the workplace, corresponds to the balance of work and economic power in the home"
- Vogler (1994)
- examined the extent to which money management systems had changed over time
- She found that the housekeeping allowance system where the woman is given an allowance from the man to pay for household expenses had declined considerably from 35%to 12% of couples), whereas some form of pooling had increased from 19% to 50%
- Pahl (1993) looked at how couples managed their money, with these results:
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