What about when men controlled all the money and doled out ‘housekeeping’ money to their wives? If a marriage is an equal partnership, then if the wife stays at home she should have equal access to the joint bank account and no whinging on the part of the husband about how he earns all the money and has the right to the whole say on how it is spent.
The wifely equivalent to this is: "The money you earn is our money, and the money I earn is my money."