breadwinner
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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
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
At 35 years old, Zhou was paying off his mortgage and had been his family’s primary breadwinner, according to his lawyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
He’s also a breadwinner again for his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 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
Telephone poles covered in fundraising pleas for families whose breadwinners either rotted in faraway detention center or were sent back to their home countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
The result: Most breadwinners still have jobs, and they are still spending.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
By treatises, essays, and letters he has striven for a brighter day for the breadwinners.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
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