This article argues that women social security recipients are governed by multiple political rationalities through the couple rule in Australia. It focuses on different periods of development of the couple rule – its inception within women's only payments of the 1970s, it's ‘de-gendering’ with the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth), and its current intersections with the digitisation of social security administration. It shows that different governing tools emerged across time to govern women through their relationships, but did not replace each other. Rather, the result is that women are now multiply governed by these seemingly contradictory rationalities. Women are governed as dependents by welfarist rationality through expectations of frugality and fidelity to a paternal state. They are governed as independent individuals through neo-liberal political rationalisations of ‘choice’. In addition, through algorithmic governmentality, women are constituted and reconstituted into a possibly promiscuous digital persona using information which is abstracted from women's daily lives. Through each of these modes of governing, the patriarchal assumptions of the couple rule endure.

本文认为，女性社会保障领取者通过澳大利亚的夫妻统治受到多重政治理性的支配。它侧重于夫妻规则的不同发展时期——它始于 1970 年代的女性唯一付款，它与1991 年社会保障法“去性别化”(Cth) 及其当前与社会保障管理数字化的交叉点。它表明，不同的治理工具随着时间的推移出现，通过她们的关系来治理女性，但并没有相互取代。相反，结果是女性现在受到这些看似矛盾的理性的多重支配。通过对节俭和忠于父系国家的期望，福利主义理性将妇女作为受抚养人统治。通过“选择”的新自由主义政治理性化，他们作为独立的个体被统治。此外，通过算法治理，使用从女性日常生活中抽象出来的信息，女性被构成并重新构成一个可能混杂的数字角色。通过这些治理模式中的每一种，