Earning More and Getting Less: Why Successful Wives Can't Buy Equality

by VeronicaJarisTichenor (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $28.62

  Shows how, historically, men derived a great deal of power over financial and household decisions by bringing home all (or most) of family's income. The author demonstrates how wives, instead of using their substantial incomes to negotiate more egalitarian, enable their husbands to perpetuate male dominance within the family.