Tichenor's research sheds light on the inner workings of families and helps us clearly see the power of gender ideology and to understand how and why women's higher earnings can be a liability rather than a resource. This book adds insights not available in similar treatments.
Beth Anne Shelton
professor of sociology, University of Texas at Arlington
... Read moreTichenor provides another slam dunk against a simple purely materialist explanation for male privilege in marriage. She shows us that even though money matters, women need an ideology of equality to draw upon to negotiate fairness in marriage. Feminist ideology is as necessary to social justice in the twenty-first century as in the past. Gender as a structure of inequality is alive and well in many American marriages.
Barbara Risman
co-chair, Council on Contemporary Families
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