They did note that there were two distinct ways of attaining an egalitarian score. The researcher tries to determine the distribution of power by analyzing how specific decisions are made. This study has been criticized as one that overemphasized male decision areas. There have been many studies focussing on marital decision-making in the decades that followed. The Blood and Wolfe study found that power is shared in the majority of marriages, although there was a tendency toward husband dominated marriages.
More current studies indicate an increase in egalitarian sentiments.
I tend to think that we have yet to reach the point where power is really equally shared by husbands and wives. I think that in most marriages the husband's interests are still looked after more closely than the wife's. Let me see if I can illustrate this point by reading descriptions of two different marriages and ask you to judge whether they are ones where the husband dominates, the wife dominates, or where power is equally shared. The husband turned down a superior academic post in Oregon and accepted a slightly less desirable position in Pennsylvania, where his wife could obtain a part-time teaching job and do research at one of the several other colleges in the area. Although the husband would have preferred to live in a suburb, they purchased a home near the wife's college so that she could have an office at home where she would be when the children came home from school.