Women in Control

A survey that British men are happy to let their wives make all the decisions in the home and often ask them to control the domestic finances. Women also take the lead in disciplining children, with only ten percent of men now involving themselves in what used to be seen as a male preserve.

Women also dictate where to go on holiday and what friends to see. But when it comes to television and cars, men still want to rule the roost. Nearly a third of the men in this recent survey confessed to deciding what TV programs were watched, regardless of what their partners might want to see, and only 12 per cent of women had a say in buying a new family car.

( Speak up # 137)

GLOSSARY

to rule the roost – ditar as regras