Nation-Level Gender Inequality and Couples' Income Arrangements.

ABSTRACT: Using data from the 2012 International Social Survey Program (n = 8,269), this study investigated how couples integrate and manage their income across 20 countries with varying degrees of gender inequality. Couples were more likely to report that one person managed the shared pot of money in countries with high gender inequality compared with couples in more gender equal countries. This pattern was not moderated by within-couple earnings equality. We found a cohabitation-marriage gap in income arrangements that is largest where national-level gender equality is high. In more gender equal contexts, married couples were more likely to pool and manage their money together, whereas a larger proportion of married couples assigned one money manager in countries with less gender equality. Cohabit

SUBMITTER: Pepin JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7992395 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature