Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Decision making and money
- Barrett and McIntosh
- Men gain more in domestic work than
they give back in financial support
- Finacial support is often unpredictable
and comes with string attached
- Men make big decisions about
what to spend money on
- Pahl and Vogler
- The allowance system
- When husbands give their wives an
allowance to meet the families needs
and keeping the surplus for himself
- Pooling
- When both partners have access to income
and joint responsibility eg. joint bank
account
- Although this evokes more equality,
they found that men still had the major
final decisions
- Edgell
- Argues that the reason the man usually has the final decision is
because he earns more. Most commonly, men earn more then
their wives
- The meaning of money
- Cohabiting relationships less likely to poole their money
because they want to maintain their independence
- Nyman - money can mean different things in different relationships
- The personal life perspective
- Although we may assume that the one controlling the money has the most
control, this is not always the case. For some couples it may not have this
meaning
- Smart - found that in gay/lesbian families they
attached no importance to who controlled the
money
- Could be due to no sex - typing