Earning more and getting less : why successful wives can't buy equality /
Annotation Shows how, historically, men derived a great deal of power over financial and household decisions by bringing home all (or most) of a family's income. The author demonstrates how wives, instead of using their substantial incomes to negotiate more egalitarian relationships, enable the...
| Основен автор: | Tichenor, Veronica Jaris, 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
℗♭2005.
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Earning more and getting less. |
Съдържание:
- Higher-earning wives : swimming against the tide
- Thinking about gender and power in marriage
- Gendered bargain : why wives can't trade their money for housework
- Dollar rich and power poor : why wives don't control the money
- Calling the shots : why wives' decision-making power is limited
- Negotiating identity and power
- Are they happy? : managing tensions and disappointments
- Floating along for the ride? : higher-earning wives and the prospects for gender change.