The Burden of Dependency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3345233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marjorie Homer (0000-0003-0280-6748), Anne Leonard (0000-0003-4033-6919), Pat Taylor |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1_suppl |
| Pages | 77-92 |
| Publication date | 1983-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1983.tb00097.x |
| PMID | 3975704 |
| OpenAlex | W1931912408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The control of financial resources is an important indicator of the distribution of power within families. This may be particularly significant when economic power is accompanied by physical violence. This paper considers economic dependency among a group of women using a refuge. It examines family income levels, the control and distribution of this money and of responsibility for paying bills, together with evidence on living standards. Using 140 per cent of the supplementary benefit standard as a poverty line, it was found that 63 per cent of the families lived in poverty. Much more significant, however, were the patterns of control of resources. Five allocation systems were identified, but the overall picture which emerged was that overwhelmingly it was men who controlled family finances. Women were kept chronically short of money, and some even had to hand over their child benefits. The women therefore suffered severe deprivation and had to go without basic household items and sometimes food. Control of the purse was even more complete when husbands were unemployed. The long-term solution requires a change in public and personal attitudes which must include giving women more equal access to economic and social resources in their own right
Control (management) · Demographic economics · Dependency (UML) · Dependency ratio · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Poverty · Power (physics) · Public economics · Sociology · Standard of living · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2000 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |