Who calls the shots at your house?

Like men across the country, Bruce Lydiard has relinquished the remote.

"If she wants to watch anything in particular, she gets to do that," the Sullivan's Island resident said of his better half. "She's my only wife. I don't want another one."

And the remote isn't the only control men are losing.

Women are increasingly making more decisions in the home, according to a recent survey by Pew Research Center. That includes minor ones, like what to watch on TV, to more significant ones, like how to handle the finances.

Of the couples surveyed, 43 percent reported that the woman calls the shots in more areas than the man. Twenty-six percent said the man makes more of the decisions, and 31 percent said they split the decision making equally.

In addition to the questions of who chooses the channel and who manages the finances, the survey also asked the 1,260 male and female respondents who chooses the shared weekend activities, and who has the final say on major purchases for the home.

And those major home purchases aren't just couches, curtains and countertops.

Read more tomorrow in Moxie in The Post and Courier.