This article focuses on the use of independent money management by a small number of cohabitants living in New Zealand. This style of money management seems to be popular with cohabitants and is likely to become increasingly significant as the number of couples who cohabit continues to grow in Western countries such as New Zealand. Yet it has received sparse attention within the literature on domestic monies. This literature has noted that money management practices operate either to diminish or to exacerbate inequalities between women and men, most noticeably in the realm of decision-making and personal spending money. Independent money management is pursued in order to achieve equality and autonomy, thereby overcoming some of the difficulties identified in other forms of money management. However, it is argued that equality and autonomy exist in tension with each other. In certain relational settings, adherence to the goal of autonomy leads to the emergence of inequalities and the continued exercise of power within heterosexual relationships.
本文重点介绍居住在新西兰的少数同居者使用独立理财的情况。这种理财方式似乎很受同居者的欢迎,而且随着新西兰等西方国家同居者人数的不断增加,这种理财方式可能会变得越来越重要。然而,在有关家庭货币的文献中,这种方式却很少受到关注。这些文献指出,金钱管理的做法要么减少要么加剧了男女之间的不平等,最明显的是在决策和个人花销方面。追求独立理财是为了实现平等和自主,从而克服在其他形式的理财中发现的一些困难。然而,有观点认为,平等和自主是相互矛盾的。在某些关系环境中,坚持自主的目标会导致异性关系中不平等的出现和权力的继续行使。