Should a wife control or manage her husband's bank account?

[jasonc]

In America, where I was brought up (Boston), Jewish woman would stay home and raise the family and control the finances.
The man would work and provide the finances.
Though they made decisions together, she held control of the money, taking away the chance that the husband would do something foolish with it and the family would no longer be provided for.
Sounds like a good system to me, each with their own responsibilities, yet working together.

classic orthodox or older consertive jewish home.

in the jewish home the man is in charge outside the home, but in the home, the women leads

something my dad said a lot. not that im saying I agree with that.

 

[Willie T]

My Jewish neighbor (a woman) told my wife, when we first got married... "The man is the head of the house ! But... the woman is the neck, and the neck turns the head."