Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Serving to earn a livelihood: as, breadwinning pursuits or labors.
- noun The earning of a livelihood.
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- noun The
earning of ahousehold 's primaryincome .
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Examples
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Given the ease of importing twenty or more unskilled apprentices from the House of Refuge or a similar institution, it is not surprising that Burt doubted the ability of journeymen weavers to obtain breadwinning wages without regulating the labor pool.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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Feminist theorists note that there are two ways to integrate women into a society as equals to men: as citizen-workers (who perform the same tasks as men, namely breadwinning) or as citizen-mothers (who perform different tasks than men, namely parenting).
PROBLEMATIZING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHAT GENDER EQUALITY LOOKS LIKE » Sociological Images
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The rise of so-called breadwinning wives has led to a number of support groups for fathers.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Note as well that throughout the paragraph, fatherhood is primarily defined as breadwinning; nearly all these policies are focused on funneling money from the father to the mother and children.
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This is elementary, in that in a traditional family, the woman works in the home to care for the children, while the man is the one who is out "breadwinning," or "working the salt mines," or however one wishes to put it.
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This is elementary, in that in a traditional family, the woman works in the home to care for the children, while the man is the one who is out "breadwinning," or "working the salt mines," or however one wishes to put it.
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Note 5: This chapter applies a definition of breadwinning which is purposefully broad enough to include the wide range of ways that organized men would have responded to their perceived household obligations. back
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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I have also spent 20 years researching and writing about the changing stories of breadwinning mothers and primary caregiving fathers www.breadandrosesproject.ca.
Women Breadwinners: Why We Must Be Sensitive to Our Slower-Moving Husbands
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What I know from my research on breadwinning mothers and caregiving fathers over the past two decades is that, while a small revolution in gender roles has occurred, men and women continue to be in a process of transition around issues of breadwinning and care.
Women Breadwinners: Why We Must Be Sensitive to Our Slower-Moving Husbands
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I share Rosin's interest in understanding the current social and emotional geography of breadwinning wives.
Women Breadwinners: Why We Must Be Sensitive to Our Slower-Moving Husbands
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