Breadwinners

When we pledge to cover rent, food or insurance, we free up single breadwinners from the unimaginable anxiety of having to cope with the medical, emotional, physical and financial catastrophe that has suddenly befallen them. ❋ Valerie Sobel (2010)

An increasing number of young women like myself are the primary breadwinners, which is no problem, except for the fact that we end up working full time, doing most of the housework, kin work, consumption work, and care work. ❋ Unknown (2006)

ILO also noted that women are perceived as caregivers while men are the breadwinners, which is why companies will rather pay women lower wages and fewer benefits as they are perceived as secondary income earners. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I imagine it will be difficult for these women, who are apparently the "breadwinners" of their families, to navigate what is a secular industry, at least here in the US. ❋ Peggy (2008)

(This will certainly be an improvement over the circumstances many housewives, for example, currently endure-in which they do labor without economic compensation and thus become dependent on their, usually, male "breadwinners"). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The remainder of the "breadwinners" were engaged in trade and transportation, and in professional, personal, and public service. ❋ Arthur William Dunn (1897)

Fourteen years later, and the "breadwinners" who are supposedly in their prime have seen an almost 10% drop in employment. ❋ [email protected] (Millennium Wave Invest (2010)

Adult male employment for those ages 25 to 54 (the group known as "breadwinners") has now fallen to where unemployment exceeds ❋ Unknown (2010)

First they start off by announcing that the recession - or, "he-cession," is affecting male "breadwinners" more than any other group. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Normative assumptions about men's and women's roles (as 'breadwinners' and 'mothers / carers' respectively) have been surprisingly universal and enduring, even where many women engaged in paid work, sometimes continuously throughout their lives. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gender inequality contributed to imbalance in the division of labour, and perpetuated stereotypes of men as "breadwinners" and women as "caregivers". ❋ Unknown (2009)

"These good girls were all their families" breadwinners, "he said.

Interestingly, he observed that men, especially the "successful, middle-aged" … "breadwinners" who were the "bastions in ❋ R. A. Geise Dillon (2009)

In an economy where men's wages have remained flat or declined slightly and where jobs are increasingly insecure, men want and need to be good breadwinners as well as involved fathers. ❋ Ellen Galinsky (2011)

Guy 1: Hey, do you [wanna] [watch] breadwinners? [Guy 2]: Why am I friends with you? ❋ Spingebill SquireShorts (2017)

I am breadwinner of my family, as [I am the] [only one] who [makes money]. ❋ Peter Morrow (2007)

[I am the] breadwinner of this [house], [bitch]. ❋ Maad (2005)

[Hey hoe], I'm the breadwinner.....go [scrub] [the toilet]. ❋ Rroseselavey (2009)

Guy 1: Hey, ya wanna watch Breadwinners? Guy 2: [FUCK no]! [That show] [sucks]! ❋ InkDictionary (2018)

[ima] breadwinner that is my [religion]. ❋ Bread Winner Gang. (2016)

1) [Rick] is such a [breadwinner], his wife makes him [steak] every night. ❋ Proat (2010)

[Friend]: [I just] did an African Breadwinner! Friend 2: [No way]! ❋ ThatGuyAlfred (2022)

Yeah dude had [breadwinner's syndrome]... he insisted on taking us to some funky restaurant, we didn't want to eat there and treated us like [his kids], expecting us to put on a [happy face] because "he was paying". We're adults and can pay our own way, and eat where we want. ❋ BreadwinnerBob (2022)

[Gardenia] loaf is limited stock during [MCO] now but [our mom] still got it magically for us, she is breadwinner. ❋ Kopihao (2020)