I grew up in a single-parent home with my mother who, by default, was (and remains) the breadwinner. She went on to date and marry, and in every relationship, she brought home the bacon and fried it ...

In an increasing number of American households, the role of primary breadwinner is going to the female partner. Men still bear that title in a majority of marriages, according to the Pew Research ...

Female breadwinners, especially those who didn’t set out to make most of their family’s income, have been found to feel less satisfied about their lives, based on a survey by Working Mother Media. And ...

Washington, D.C. — A new analysis by the Center for American Progress finds that in 2017, nearly two-thirds—64.2 percent—of mothers were primary, sole, or co-breadwinners for their families. According ...

In a report released yesterday, The Center for American Progress found that in 2015 42 percent of working mothers were the sole or primary breadwinner in their families, meaning that they were ...

Sarah Jane Glynn describes how women are now either breadwinners or co-breadwinners in most families. People gather on the steps of the Vermont statehouse for a rally on National Equal Pay Day. Women ...

Walking into a recent luncheon for the launch of Prudential’s study on the Financial Experience and Behaviors Among Women, I was greeted with the headline: “Women are primary breadwinners, whether ...

When Americans think about fixing gender equality, they tend to focus on the workplace. But gender equality for women still lags in another realm: their own houses. One way to understand how women’s ...

With just hours before he hosts a rare prime-time address to brag on his first year achievements, new polling shows that America’s breadwinners are losing confidence in President Donald Trump‘s ...

In the face of some of the worst poverty in the country, women on the Wind River Indian Reservation are getting to work. At the Wind River Casino, almost 60 percent of workers are female. We just ...

Agnes Vitali is affiliated with the ESRC Centre for Population Change and with the Gender Initiative at the Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi ...