Being responsible for making the money is different from having the agency to spend the money. It's fairly common for cultures to grant that role to the woman of the household.

Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions, but it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men" and believe that's all you need in order to make any statement about gender across all of time and space.

> Not sure if that's the case in historic Germanic regions

It wasn't (aside from food and other common needs).

> it's a crutch to take the principle "women are universally oppressed by men"

I did not say that. The OP spoke of centuries where arranged marriages were common in Germany, and there's no doubt that women did not have equal rights during that time. The crutch here is to define "success of marriages" through fertility rates and number of divorces.