Why do women accumulate less wealth than men?
| Autor: | Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (IRISSO), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Cultures et sociétés urbaines (CSU), Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (CRESPPA), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cultures et sociétés urbaines (Cresppa-CSU), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Marlène Benquet, Théor Bourgeron, Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology
capital sociologie 05 social sciences 1. No poverty inégalités hommes femmes [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences genre 0502 economics and business 8. Economic growth Economics JEL: Z - Other Special Topics/Z.Z1 - Cultural Economics • Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology/Z.Z1.Z13 - Economic Sociology • Economic Anthropology • Social and Economic Stratification 050207 economics [SHS.GENRE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Gender studies accumulation ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS femmes 050205 econometrics |
| Zdroj: | Accumulating Capital Accumulating Capital, pp.224-234, 2020 Accumulating Capital Today. Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies Marlène Benquet; Théor Bourgeron. Accumulating Capital Today. Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies, Routledge, pp.224-234, 2021, 9780367545000 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003089513-20 |
| Popis: | International audience; In contemporary capitalism, inequality of wealth is increasing. Some upper-class families appropriate economic capital and pass it on to their children, while others are permanently deprived of it. At the same time, while women have largely entered the labor market and the gender pay gap is on the political agenda in all Western countries, the gender wealth gap is not closing, quite the opposite. In this chapter we explore family wealth arrangements in France. Estate planning and marital breakdowns are two moments when families and legal professionals strive to preserve real estate and businesses, or to minimize taxes. For this purpose, they produce inventories, estimations and distributions of assets which end up disadvantaging women, even though shares may appear to be formally equal. Reversed accounting is a common logic of practice, in which the result comes first and computation only after, as a means to legitimize the sharing that has been (forcefully) agreed on. Thus, it is not only the wealth of the upper class that is underestimated, but more particularly men’s wealth. Those mechanisms contribute to impoverish women. We conclude that class society reproduces itself thanks to the male appropriation of capital. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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