When you add in working mothers who are co-breadwinners the number tops 6 out of 10.
As a result, the number of women who are sole breadwinners for their families is increasing.
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Two thirds of the jobs lost belonged to men, with women becoming the breadwinners of the family.
Women are breadwinners in a growing number of families, and women's earnings play an increasingly important role in families' incomes.
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As more and more women rise to powerful positions in the workplace, the incidence of female breadwinners will continue to grow.
And that's an example of the kind of advocacy that we need, because women are increasingly the breadwinners in the family.
You know it: the constant struggle to meet our responsibilities both as employees, but also as breadwinners, and mothers and fathers.
Right now, women are a growing number of breadwinners in the household.
As more women enter the workforce, and many become the primary breadwinners, there is a structural shift taking place in organizations and households.
Now that women are increasingly co-earners or sole breadwinners, families could feel the impact if moms are discriminated against in the hiring process.
As breadwinners lost jobs or suffered pay cuts, the number of low-income families grew to 10 million in 2009, an increase of almost a quarter-million.
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Relatively young breadwinners with mortgages, college tuition or other bills that will require a back-up plan if they are no longer around to cover them.
Now that women are half of the workforce and two-thirds of moms are breadwinners or co-breadwinners, families are feeling the pinch more than ever before.
After the violence ended, many Rwandan women whose husbands, fathers and sons were killed found themselves thrust into the unfamiliar role of being sole breadwinners for their families.
Today, women are nearly 50 percent of our workforce, the majority of students in our colleges and graduate schools, and a growing number of breadwinners in their families.
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Sixty percent of Haitian households are headed by women and many face special challenges as breadwinners, according to a recent U.N. conference for university students in Haiti about responsible government.
And if financial services companies want to make a buck off the masses of these female breadwinners, they are going to have to engage with them on a different level.
For instance, what if many of the women allegedly denied promotions were secondary household breadwinners who didn't have the flexibility to work longer hours or switch stores, tasks that are routine for retail store managers?
According to an article in Businessweek last week, more women are family breadwinners than ever before, often working in high-level executive jobs while their husbands or partners decide to stay at home to take care of the kids.
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I've always prided myself on being part of a marriage of equals, where we are both the breadwinners and, as I like to tenderly remind the South American gentleman to whom I am wed, we are both responsible for the housework.
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But career women who are the family breadwinners are nearly 40% more likely to get a divorce than women without the same economic resources, according to a 25-year study by Jay Teachman, a sociology professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Wash.
We're still in the position where women who are the primary breadwinners are making the choice between taking on an extra job that they need and being able to cover the cost of childcare to be able to go to that job.
Women are the breadwinners for a lot of families, and if they're making less than men do for the same work, families are going to have to get by for less money for childcare and tuition and rent, small businesses have fewer customers.
If some of them wanted a break from domestic routine, they could volunteer to work on the PTA or, if they were wealthy enough, the charity fashion show. ("It is a tradition in the Guggenheimer family that all the men become lawyers and all the women work on committees, " said a story in the Times about some well-to-do New Yorkers.) Men were supposed to be the breadwinners.
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