@article{31,
  author = {Lauren Clingan},
  title = {Defining women{\textquoteright}s incomes: household disruptions and gendered resolutions},
  abstract = {<p>Women increasingly work for pay, disrupting cultural expectations and relational dynamics tied to men{\textquoteright}s breadwinning. Scholars have examined how women{\textquoteright}s incomes impact measures of domestic gender inequality, yet there is limited research on the mechanisms underlying that relationship, including how households define and spend women{\textquoteright}s wages. Adopting economic sociology{\textquoteright}s relational work approach, this study shows how tandem processes, relational accounting of feminine consumption and relational obfuscation of women{\textquoteright}s earnings, shape the meaning of women{\textquoteright}s work{\textemdash}processes that extend beyond marital dyads to involve siblings, children, and parents. Drawing from interviews with sixty-four Emirati women and men, I show how households leverage contradictory feminine consumption norms to designate women{\textquoteright}s wages as communal resources, while at the same time, they conceal women{\textquoteright}s financial contributions and disproportionately recognize men{\textquoteright}s breadwinning. I call these relational adaptations to the breakdown of patriarchal bargains predicated on men{\textquoteright}s provision <em>gendered resolutions</em>, because they illustrate processes through which women{\textquoteright}s wages may paradoxically uphold unequal gendered arrangements. This study offers a framework to understand shifting gender relations during periods of economic change.</p>},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Social Forces},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae098},
  doi = {10.1093/sf/soae098},
}