Research in the Unites States concerning the relative access of women and men to financial resources has focused on the influence of women's increasing market work, but has largely overlooked the also critical issue of what happens to money after it enters couple households. To fill this gap, this paper employs a typology of household allocative systems developed in Great Britain to analyze money management and control in a sample of U.S. couples. I find that the use of these systems varies substantially across socio-economic, racial, ethnic, and relationship status groups, as well as by household division of labor. The patterns suggest that many women, already disadvantaged in earnings, either absolutely or relative to
their partners, are in couples in which male control over or withholding of income most likely reproduces or exacerbates their earnings disadvantage.