Of course, any couple will divide up
breadwinning and caregiving work according to their individual circumstances and personalities.
Stay-at-home fathers and
breadwinning mothers: Gender, couple dynamics, and social change.
fathers in the study did not see
breadwinning as essential to
Two veins of research about fathers have held sway since the 1980s: one about fathers' increased involvement with their children and one about the sustained importance of
breadwinning to fatherhood (Lamb, 2000; Pleck & Pleck, 1997).
1) In both Canada and the United States, the figures for
breadwinning women vary depending on how this is being measured and whether one includes all women or just mothers, as well as whether women/mothers are married, common-law, or single.
Jewish men's failure to sustain their
breadwinning responsibilities disrupted Jewish claims to white masculine privilege just as it brought into question the right of Jewish women to a space on the southern lady's protective pedestal.
The concept of equally shared parenting, a model in which both parents contribute equally to household chores,
breadwinning, and child-rearing, is being embraced by many heterosexual couples, although it might not be quite as new a concept to same-sex couples in which gender roles have never been quite as clear-cut.
Breadwinning wives and 'left-behind' husbands: Men and masculinities in the Vietnamese transnational family.
This article further proposes policies, including paid family leave, to promote co-equal caregiving and
breadwinning between men and women.
The function of the university is not simply to teach
breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment from which forms the secret of civilization.
Labor markets,
breadwinning, and beliefs: How economic context shapes men's gender ideology, Gender & Society, 23, 215-243.
allocate responsibility for
breadwinning and for caretaking.
