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
Gomez, who is the breadwinner of his family, says his monthly supply of medication costs $1,500 a bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
For ten years, Mother had been the primary breadwinner, while continuing to cook meals, clean the house, do the laundry, and I had never once heard her express anything like resentment.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
It was an era where men were the primary breadwinners in most households.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
After one of the breadwinners was detained in an immigration raid, she said, the family is concerned they may face eviction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025
We have an average of about three breadwinners to each two families, so that every person unemployed does not represent a family without income.
From State of the Union Address by Herbert Hoover
