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

这项研究将分析夫妻在分享经济资源方面的阶层差异。该项目将解决理论上的争论，即保留对收入的自主控制是否有助于女性？S在她们的关系中将金钱转化为权力的能力。调查夫妻如何分配资金，将有助于解决为什么女性更多的劳动力参与并不是减少家庭性别不平等的充分条件这一理论难题。这项研究将使性别和经济环境结合起来构建家庭关系的方式在概念上更加清晰。确保家庭中所有个人的福利是公众关注的问题，这项研究预计将扩大对妇女在社会中的经济地位的了解。当关系结束时，家庭如何分享金钱会影响关系质量和资源分配，这往往会对女性的经济造成不成比例的不利影响。这项研究将有助于我们理解成人亲密关系的稳定性，这是一个对政策制定者很重要的话题。社会经济变化改变了经济资源进入关系的动态，家庭结构日益多样化。现代夫妇面临着家庭共同利益的理想和个人主义价值观之间的紧张关系，背离了过去文化上预期的家庭安排。对于为什么个人越来越多地从共同的家庭储蓄罐中扣留钱财，人们的解释并不一致，有时甚至相互矛盾，并产生了关于这一趋势所象征的东西的相互矛盾的说法：家庭不稳定的增加，婚姻中的个人主义利益的转变，或者朝着性别平等精神的转变的证据。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用资源。该项目使用对夫妇的半结构化访谈，以了解夫妇的金钱分配如何缓解或加剧家庭内的性别平等，以及用于实现夫妇目标的策略是否取决于阶级地位。访谈将聚焦于与财务分配方式变化相关的人生转变，并解决夫妻之间的悖论。分配制度及其组织方法的实际后果。

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.