Financial affairs? Money management in same-sex relationships

Normative Beliefs about Money in Families: Balancing Togetherness, Autonomy, and Equality

“…In partnerships where a woman's income is sufficient to support herself and her partner holds less conventional beliefs about gender, couples are more likely to take a partial-pooling approach, combining some but not all of their earnings (Vogler, Brockmann, & Wiggins, 2006). An analysis of same-sex couples showed these couples also tended to keep some money separate as a way to facilitate equality within their relationships (Burns, Burgoyne, & Clarke, 2008). For these reasons, vignette-survey respondents may indicate women, more so than men, should withhold money from the common pot in order to maintain control over their earnings (Hypothesis 5b).…”

The effects of sexual orientation and marital status on how couples hold their money

“…These show that women's employment and family income are important determinants of respondent's reports of whether money was pooled and of control over money. In a qualitative study of 22 same-sex couples, individual employment, earnings, and education also seemed to affect family money management systems and reported power over expenditures (Burns et al 2007).…”

Money management systems in early marriage: Factors influencing change and stability

“…Work has also begun to investigate the Wnancial practices of same sex couples (Burns, Burgoyne, & Clarke, 2006; see also Blumstein & Schwartz, 1983;Dunne, 1997) and heterosexual cohabiting couples (Elizabeth, 2001;Vogler, 2005). The results from the earlier studies, using a range of diVerent approaches, show that, despite a rhetoric of equality and sharing in heterosexual marriage, men tend to have more say in economic decision making and readier access to Wnancial resources than their wives, especially when the latter are providing most or all of the childcare (Pahl, 1995).…”