breadwinner
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If it were, then it would apply to all lower-income families equally, regardless of whether a breadwinner spouse is in the picture.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 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
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
Williams’s older brother used the press to launch a modest job-printing business, but in 1861 he joined the Union Army, leaving the household without a breadwinner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
I would have to become our breadwinner and carry all of the financial weight.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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
“These weren’t criminals. They worked, they were the breadwinners of their house and their families were scared without them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
The tragic faces one meets with are of the women breadwinners whose burdens are overwhelming and of the children in whom physical fatigue arrests development and all possibility of pleasure.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
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