Top 10 Reasons to Believe that Women Call the Shots at Home

According to a latest report from the National Center for Health Marketing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is now proved that Women take the final decisions at home, completely. The objective of the study was to learn about the decision making in the typical American home.

Data was collected from 1,260 married adults through telephonic interview. Questions were related to four areas of domestic life. They were:(1) household finances; (2) big home purchases; (3) shared weekend activities and (4) television viewing. The results obtained show that women are increasingly taking the role of the decision maker at home.

Top 10 Reasons to Believe that Women Call the Shots at Home:

1. In 43% of the couples, men have no share in decision making in all the four mentioned areas of domestic life.
2. Only 9% men were the decision makers in three or all the four areas of study.
3. 26% men allowed the their wives to take the final decision on shared weekend activities.
4. 30% women had the final say when it came to big items for the house.
5. 19% men were found to decide the big items for the house.
6. In the matter of household finances, 37% men believe that they take the final decision.
7. Interestingly, 45% of women believe that the final say on household finances is taken by them.
8. 30% women are allowed to decide the programs to be viewed on television.
9. 24% women controlled the remote all the time.
10. Only older couples (with age 65 and above) were found to take decisions jointly on all the four areas.

Women were allowed by men, mostly to take the final decision, on health related matters of the family members only. It is now clear that gone are those days.

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