Intra‐Family Equality and Income Distribution: Emerging Conflicts in Public Policy

Zahid Shariff

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1979, vol. 38, issue 1, 49-59

Abstract: Abstract. Recent social and economic developments have generated opportunities that have been unevenly distributed among wives in husband‐wife families. Compared to others, participation rates and incomes, in particular, have been greater for wives in high‐income families or those married to high‐income earning men. One consequence of these circumstances is that income inequalities between spouses in the better off families have declined. Another is that income inequalities between families are expected to grow. It is suggested that the conflict between the two‐inter‐ and intra‐family equality—is a very real one.

Date: 1979
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