couples- decision making pooling v allowance 3

Question 1

feminist pahl/vouger 2 main types of family income :
pooling =

Answer 1

both partners share their inome(joint bank count) and have equal access to it

Question 2

feminist pahl/vouger 2 main types of family income :
allowance

Answer 2

man gives wife allowance- a weekly amount to spend on things like shopping/clothing - keeps rest to himself.

Question 3

finding from pahl/vouger
pooling replacing the

Answer 3

allowance system- they looked at over 1000 couples and found compared with parents, pooling inc 19%>50%
inc young couples pooling money
pooling more common when both work, less when only man works

Question 4

finding from pahl/vouger
but they claim that even when both parties worked

Answer 4

it was still a man who made up major financial positions- patriarchy

Question 5

material explanation for inequalities in decision making
+ Lauren + gershuny 2000

Answer 5

men have more power in deciosn making as they earn more- women economically depended so they have less say.
L+G found by 1995 70% couples had equal say in descions- women who earn higher amount more likely to have equal say . some progress towards equality>decisons dependent on financial income of couple/dependency on each other.

Question 6

cultural explanation for inequalities in decision making

Answer 6

gender role socialisation in patriarche society instills the idea that men are decision maker.

Question 7

decision making - hardall

Answer 7

studied 30 dual career families - found important deciosns made by men - career deemed the most important (earned more)

Question 8

meaning of money- pahl argue pooling doesnt equal equality

Answer 8

low income families/ even anedquate income- recourses shared unequally > women poverty often result of who’s in control of family income , makes designs about spending it.

Question 9

personal life perspective
smart 2007
don’t believe money has impact on decision making

Answer 9

focuses on the meanings couples give to who controls money- 1 partner controlling doesnt always equal equality. smart 2007- homosexual couple didn’t attach any meaning to who controlled money> didn’t see it as unequality+same sex couples don’t carry sterotypess and cultural explanations.