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Making financial decisions for the household is an important component of married life in the domestic sphere. It relates to making decisions about children's health, family relationships, and happiness. This study used a cross-sectional quantitative research design and the survey as a method for data collection. The focus of the current study was to learn about spouses' autonomy in making domestic economic decisions. There were three groups in the study: employed husband and non-employed wife, both husband, and wife working, and employed wife and husband with no stable income. The sample comprises 200 participants that were chosen using convenient as well as snowball sampling procedures. The respondents were chosen from various parts of Lahore. A self-constructed and self-generated questionnaire was used by taking help from the women autonomy measurement scale and J-PAL guidelines for measuring women and girls’ empowerment. Independent t-tests and One-way ANOVA were used to find out the results. The outcomes specified that due to current transitions, and trends both married partners experienced a change in their autonomy and, in most of the cases, there is an improved autonomy of wives in the financial domestic decision.

Keywords: Spousal Autonomy, Financial Autonomy, Household Decision Making, Women Financial Autonomy.