From the research carried out by a Connecticut sociology professor, Christin Munsch, it seems that men still expect to be breadwinners in the family, and that they can still feel emasculated when their female partners make more money.
We can only imagine the repercussions and personal hardship that flow from the detention of hardworking fishermen in Australia, while their families struggle in ever-present poverty without their breadwinners.
Mr Sharon's office has issued a statement repeating that he wants to see seven days without violence before a formal ceasefire can begin.Many Palestinians and foreign observers see that demand as impossible for Mr Arafat to meet, and not only because he presides over an outraged people, where one in three breadwinners is unemployed and one in two Palestinian families is officially impoverished.
Women have increasingly become breadwinners for drunk or absent husbands, even as they have been squeezed from the workplace thanks to industrial restructuring.
Breadwinners are used to providing for several dependants.
France Télécom acquired Orange in 2000, when it was a British mobile-phone operator.Home economicsMothers are the main breadwinners in 40% of American households, according to Pew.
In the United States, four in ten primary breadwinners are now women.
The ANC has also established Africa's largest welfare state, most importantly through the provision of old-age pensions, which have transformed black grandmothers into the main breadwinners for many rural families.All this was done without printing money.
First, work in most organisations is structured in ways that were established many decades ago, when married men were the breadwinners and most married women stayed at home.
And breadwinners worried about their jobs may not spend the extra money.
One might imagine that this gap arises simply because two breadwinners earn more than one.
