@isaackuo @juergen_hubert this is still common in Japan. And it is also still common in Japan that the women leave the labor market upon marriage.
Not statistical, but anecdotal: it seems like this arrangement is less likely to be practiced in families where the women remain employed.

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I have a question: I have learned that it was quite common in labor professions in Germany that the women would receive her husband's wages directly, was in control of the household finances, and would only give her husband some "drinking money" so tha...