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.

这项研究将分析夫妻分享经济资源方式的阶级差异。该项目将解决关于保留对收入的自主控制是否有利于女性的理论争论。在人际关系中将金钱转化为权力的能力。调查夫妻如何分配金钱将有助于解决理论难题，即为什么女性劳动力参与率的提高并不是减少家庭性别不平等的充分条件。这项研究将使性别和经济环境结合起来构成家庭关系的方式在概念上更加清晰。确保家庭内所有个人的福利是公众关注的一个问题，预期这项研究将扩大对妇女在社会中的经济地位的认识。家庭分担金钱的方式会影响关系的质量和关系结束时资源的分配，这通常会使女性在经济上处于不成比例的劣势。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是一个重要的话题。社会中的经济变化改变了人际关系中财政资源的动态，家庭结构也日益多样化。现代夫妇面临着家庭共同利益理想和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。对于个人越来越多地从共同的家庭储蓄中存钱的原因，人们的解释是不一致的，有时甚至是矛盾的，并产生了关于这一趋势象征着什么的相互矛盾的说法：家庭不稳定的增加，婚姻中个人主义利益的转变，或者是朝着性别平等精神发展的证据。经济困难风险的阶级差异也可能影响家庭的目标和可用资源。本项目采用对夫妇的半结构化访谈，以了解夫妇的金钱分配如何减轻或加剧家庭中的性别平等，以及用于实现夫妇目标的策略是否以阶级地位为条件。访谈将集中在与财务分配方法变化相关的生活转变，并解决夫妻背后所陈述的推理之间的矛盾。分配系统及其组织方法的实际后果。