Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender Inequality and Couples? Income Organizational Strategies

博士论文研究：性别不平等与夫妻？

• 批准号: 1701639
• 负责人: Liana Sayer
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-15 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1701639&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Gender; Inequality

This study will analyze class variation in the ways couples share their financial resources. The project will address theoretical debates about whether retaining autonomous control over earnings facilitates women?s ability to convert money into power within their relationships. Investigating how couples allocate money will help resolve the theoretical puzzle of why women's increased labor force participation has not been a sufficient condition to reducing gender inequality in the home. This research will add conceptual clarity to the ways gender and economic circumstances combine to structure family relations. Securing the welfare of all individuals within households is a matter of public concern and this study is expected to expand knowledge about women's economic position in society. How families share money influences relationship quality and the distribution of resources when relationships end, an event that often disproportionately disadvantages women economically. The research will contribute to our understanding of the stability of adult intimate relationships, a topic important to policy makers.Economic changes in society altered the dynamic of financial resources brought into relationships and family structures are increasingly diverse. Modern couples confront tensions between ideals of mutual family interests and values of individualism, a departure from fitting themselves into culturally expected family arrangements of the past. Interpretations of why individuals increasingly withhold money from a common family pot are inconsistent and sometimes contradictory, and has generated competing claims about what the trend symbolizes: a rise in the instability of families, a shift towards individualist interests within marriages, or evidence of movement towards an ethos of gender equality. Class disparities in the risk of financial hardship may also influence the goals and resources available to families. This project uses semi-structured interviews with couples to understand how couples' allocation of money mitigates or exacerbates gender equality within families and whether the strategies used to achieve couples' goals are conditional on class position. The interviews will focus on life transitions associated with changes in financial allocations approaches and addresses the paradoxes between the stated reasoning behind couples? allocation systems and the actual consequences of their organizational approaches.

这项研究将通过夫妻共享财务资源的方式来分析班级变化。该项目将解决有关保留对收入的自主控制是否有助于妇女在人际关系内将金钱转变为权力的能力的理论辩论。调查夫妻如何分配金钱将有助于解决为什么妇女增加劳动力参与的理论难题并不是减少家庭性别不平等的足够条件。这项研究将使性别和经济环境结合结构家庭关系的方式增加概念上的清晰度。确保家庭中所有个人的福利是公众关注的问题，预计这项研究将扩大有关妇女在社会中经济地位的知识。家庭如何共享金钱影响关系质量和关系结束时的资源分配，这一事件通常会在经济上经济上不利。这项研究将有助于我们理解成人亲密关系的稳定性，这对政策制定者来说很重要。社会经济变化改变了带来关系的财务资源的动态，家庭结构越来越多样化。现代夫妇在共同家庭利益的理想与个人主义价值观的理想之间面临紧张关系，从而使自己陷入了过去的文化期望的家庭安排。解释为什么个人越来越多地从一个共同的家庭锅中扣留钱是不一致的，有时甚至是矛盾的，并且已经对趋势的象征提出了竞争主张：家庭不稳定的兴起，向婚姻中的个人主义兴趣的转变，或者向性别平等的流动的证据。出于财务困难风险的阶级差异也可能影响家庭可用的目标和资源。该项目使用与夫妇的半结构化访谈，以了解夫妻在家庭中的减少或加剧性别平等的分配以及实现夫妻目标的策略是否在班级职位上是有条件的。访谈将重点关注与财务分配方法变化相关的生活转变，并解决夫妻背后既定推理之间的悖论？分配系统及其组织方法的实际后果。