Decision Making and Power Relationships
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- Decision Making and Power Relationships
- Inequality in the home can also be linked to domestic violence and power relationships
- Edgell (1980)
- Very important decisions
- Job change, house move, etc
- Joint but husband has the final say
- Important decisions
- Child's education, holiday destinations
- Joint, but never the wife alone
- Less important decisions
- Home decor, food purchases, clothing, etc
- Wife alone
- Very important decisions
- Domestic Violence
- Demonstrates unequal power within the home
- 1 in 4 women will suffer domestic violence in their lifetime
- 2 women per week are killed by a partner in the UK
- Dobash and Dobash
- Police don't take violent crime towards wives by husbands seriously
- 1991 Marital **** Law
- Stanko (2000)
- A woman is killed by a partner or ex every 3 days in the UK
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