Conjugal power and spousal resources in patriarchal cultures

Wives’ power and wives’ proportionate contribution to subsistence will be negatively associated with cultural complexity (31-2).

The relationship between cultural complexity and women's contribution to subsistence is non-linear.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
correlation, multuple regression	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cultural Complexity	Independent	`NONE`
Wives' Contribution To Subsistence	Dependent	Division Of Labor By Gender
Wives' Power	Dependent	Basis Of Marriage

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Lee, Gary R.	1983	Wives’ power will be positively associated with wives’ proportionate contribution to subsistence (28, 31-2).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Zelman, Elizabeth Crouch	1977	Female pollution avoidance ritual will be associated with society complexity, unilineal descent, low female contribution to subsistence, low male contribution to childcare, and low female prestige (718, 727).	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Schlegel, Alice	1986	Women’s contribution to subsistence will be positively associated with polygyny, exogamy, bridewealth, postpartum sex taboo, girls’ socialization for industriousness, positive evaluation of females, and premarital sexual permissiveness (145-7)	Supported	9	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1990	Contribution of women to subsistence is associated with women's ability to control resources produced by men (5)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Eichler, Margrit	1975	"In cultures in which women contribute above the median to subsistence, the postpartum sex taboo will be shorter than in societies in which women contribute below the median to the subsistence of society" (1.5).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author