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.

这项研究将分析夫妇分享经济资源的方式的阶级差异。该项目将解决关于保持对收入的自主控制是否有利于妇女的理论辩论。在他们的关系中把金钱转化为权力的能力。调查夫妇如何分配金钱将有助于解决为什么妇女增加劳动力参与率并不是减少家庭中性别不平等的充分条件的理论难题。这项研究将使性别和经济环境联合收割机如何构成家庭关系的问题在概念上更加清晰。确保家庭中所有个人的福利是公众关注的问题，这项研究可望扩大对妇女在社会中的经济地位的了解。家庭如何分享金钱会影响关系的质量和关系结束时的资源分配，这一事件往往在经济上对妇女造成不成比例的不利影响。这项研究将有助于我们理解成年人亲密关系的稳定性，这是政策制定者的一个重要课题。社会的经济变化改变了关系中的财务资源动态，家庭结构日益多样化。现代夫妻面临着共同家庭利益的理想与个人主义价值观之间的紧张关系，这与过去文化上期望的家庭安排背道而驰。对于为什么个人越来越多地从共同的家庭锅中扣留钱的解释是不一致的，有时是矛盾的，并且产生了关于这种趋势象征着什么的相互竞争的主张：家庭不稳定性的增加，婚姻中个人主义利益的转变，或者是向性别平等的精神气质运动的证据。在经济困难风险方面的阶级差异也可能影响家庭的目标和可利用的资源。该项目采用半结构化访谈的方式，对夫妇进行访谈，以了解夫妇的金钱分配如何减轻或加剧家庭内的两性平等，以及用于实现夫妇目标的战略是否以阶级地位为条件。访谈将集中在与财务分配方法的变化相关的生活转型，并解决了夫妇背后的陈述推理之间的矛盾。分配制度及其组织方法的实际后果。