breadwinner
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“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
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
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
She yelled back, “Well, who’s the breadwinner in this house? Who has two jobs? Who deserves to relax at the end of the day?”
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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
Nearly a quarter of women in the 1% are first-generation Americans, and about one-fifth experienced times in their childhoods when the main breadwinners in their homes were unemployed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Many were - and still are - the main breadwinners in their families.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Many of them are the chief breadwinners of the family.
From Women Workers in Seven Professions by Edith J. Morley
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