breadwinner
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Except now I’m helping to develop my own daughter, a mother of two, into a full-fledged professional and family breadwinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Here’s the short version: Tradwives promote a traditional model of family life, prioritizing being a homemaker and a primary caregiver and supporting their husbands’ role as the primary breadwinner.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Advice for a burned-out breadwinner: A letter writer who’s outwardly successful by all measures—a wife, kids, a well-paying job—can’t stop dreaming about leaving it all behind.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Halem argued for leniency through his attorney, telling the court he was a father and the sole breadwinner in his household.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
Katherine was now the mother and father, the love and the discipline, the carrot and the stick, and the sole breadwinner.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Then they’d take their earnings home to Mexico as breadwinners and comparatively rich men, and stay until the next year’s season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Men in this generation may also have experienced financial strain differently because they were more likely to have been the primary breadwinners in this cohort born in 1946.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
They are typically mid-career and are often primary breadwinners.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Many were - and still are - the main breadwinners in their families.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
So, as the I. C. trains rush their thousands to work and home again the citizens and breadwinners let their imaginations gallop toward a faraway horizon.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
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