Between the two extremes is Ms. Yang herself, whose very success as a love hunter has made her the breadwinner in her own family.
Indeed, she is: the mother of three is her family's breadwinner, earning more than her husband, who proudly supports her success.
Nor did she conceal her outrage that, as the main breadwinner (her husband had given up his job as a civil liberties lawyer and was thus able to look after the children more than he otherwise would have done) she would remain financially obliged to him.
One lifelong friend told me that Hillary is haunted by her time in Arkansas, when she was the breadwinner (her husband's salary as governor was only $35,000).
Her new trade has brought her family more than £2,000 in savings, making her the main breadwinner.
Her character, Kathy Jardine, is a psychiatrist and her family's breadwinner, the mother of an artistically inclined 12-year-old boy and the wife of a struggling-actor husband.
In what may be Joan's most-talked-about moment, she agreed to sleep with a sleazy Jaguar executive in exchange for a partnership at the agency — a move that secured her family's financial future and solidified her role as breadwinner.
When Helen was in her final year of primary school she lost both of her parents and became the breadwinner for her two younger brothers.
With her husband dead for 20 years, the 64-year-old bread seller is her family's only breadwinner, and so her earnings of 15 Egyptian pounds (£1.50) a day are all she has to feed herself and the two of her four children who have not yet left home.
He often disappeared for months, and then years, leaving her mother, Julia, the sole breadwinner for her three young daughters.
