Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage. — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother. — Dorothy Fields Copy Share Image
“She's trollin' for a breadwinner and uses a short skirt for bait.” — Sharon Gillenwater Copy Share Image
I was raised in a house where my mom was the primary breadwinner. It was a dysfunctional house, but she showed tremendous… — Chamath Palihapitiya Copy Share Image
People tend to discuss things like relationships with family and friends, and the fact that I'm the only breadwinner in the family.… — Karishma Tanna Copy Share Image
“Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary father and breadwinner, you are not needed any longer and you must… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
In economies in which women work, men and women in relationships make about the same amount of money, or women make more.… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
I have been a daughter, a bride, a mother, a divorcee, a widow, a single mother, a grandmother, a breadwinner, and, ultimately… — Lorrie Morgan Copy Share Image
I didn't have any more children because I couldn't have continued working - and I was the main breadwinner. But although we… — Vera Lynn Copy Share Image
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
This transition of being a woman and a breadwinner - it took some time for my dad to get used that. It… — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
The family indeed is dead, if what we mean by it is the modern family system in which units comprised of male… — Judith Stacey Copy Share Image
The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
I don't see the women as a problem. The women are doing all they can do. They're heading up households; they're single… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Perhaps the old view of 'Me breadwinner, you hausfrau' worked for our grandparents, when people obligingly popped off before boring each other… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am a single mom and I'm the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and… — Charisma Carpenter Copy Share Image
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner,… — Katherine Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
My dad was opening fast bowler for Yorkshire's second team and I couldn't believe he could die. He wasn't going to get… — Brian Blessed Copy Share Image
There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
My mom was the breadwinner in my family. I always thought, 'That's how it is.' I never thought that was the exception. — Colin Jost Copy Share Image
If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“To become a better you, remember to be grateful to people who have contributed to making you who you are today.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
I actually think it's a good thing that men also have the option to take leave. 'Cause sometimes women are breadwinners in… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
“Sheryl said that women were built to be nurturers, not breadwinners, so in order for us women to take care of the… — Siow Lee Chin Copy Share Image
Men who define themselves as breadwinners are going to have to leave the traditional iconography of masculinity behind if they want to… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths,… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
