breadwinner

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

“This particular division of private and public, housewife and breadwinner … was built on a flow of cheap fossil fuels and car culture,” she told The 19th.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 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

Like many of the workers arrested, he was the primary breadwinner for his family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

He had a job he had to keep because he was the breadwinner in the household.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

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

North Korean women, on the other hand, "are very tough and resilient", Han said, reflecting a widely-held perception of them as hardworking and resourceful breadwinners in a country where everyday life can be incredibly hard.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

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