Sentences with phrase «women as breadwinners»

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Back in the day, companies would justify paying women less than men because, among other reasons, men were seen as breadwinner providers responsible for an entire household.

If the trend in female breadwinner families reflects changes in attitudes about the roles of men and women, we might expect a strong regional pattern, as some areas of Canada might embrace attitude changes more quickly than others.

Sen shows that income earned in the market by a male breadwinner is often not evenly distributed within the household, due to cultural as well as legal factors that discriminate against women.

Would we still expect men to be breadwinners and women caretakers (and as much as we say we don't want that, we still fall back into gendered roles)?

Despite the many ways women have pushed forward as far as education, the workplace, being breadwinner wives, etc., there's one area in which we still seem to have antiquated views — women overwhelmingly (78 percent, according to the Pew Research Center) want our men to have a study job.

and «I am not any happier with my role as a mandated breadwinner than women used to be as the mandated caregiver.

«If women aren't seen by their bosses as breadwinners, then the danger is that women are going to be supporting families on less than a man might make.»

Most importantly, it found that the gender pay gap that sees women consistently paid less serves to reinforce the image of men as primary breadwinners.

Women and mothers are a permanent fixture in the workforce — and odds are slim that after a child's birth its mother will stay home full time while its father works as the family's sole breadwinner.

Decades after the modern feminist movement began, our culture still reflects the belief in men as so - called breadwinners and women as nurturers, managing the house and taking care of the children.

As a result of the demand on women to perform well in business, to sometimes be the primary breadwinner of the family, and to compete with the go - go - go energy of much of the working world, there has been a tendency for many women to get locked into that kind of «masculine» energy, which can be counter-productive when it comes to getting intimate in the bedroom.

Men are expected to be the breadwinner, to stand up for their women and to justify their position as the head of the family.

Such minor quibbles aside, «The Breadwinner» proves nothing short of exceptional, celebrating as it does a young woman who faces adversity head - on — and who relies on her own creativity, both as a storyteller and in practical situations, to adapt to whatever obstacles she faces.

Executive produced by Angelina Jolie, «The Breadwinner» does precisely that, and though Twomey's essential, empathetic look into the plight of women, young and old, in present - day Afghanistan doesn't identify its heroine as the exact same girl, her jade - colored eyes are a certain reminder, while her spirit burns every bit as strongly.

Meyers cheats a bit in making Ben already evolved as a self - described feminist in his thinking regarding women in power in the workplace and as breadwinners at home.

Out of curiosity, did you ever stop to think, «Hmmm, if I only interview successful female authors (and let's admit that women absolutely dominate the Romance genre), I'm not going to get many examples where the woman acted as the breadwinner while the man stayed home to pursue his career?

His paintings intrepidly address the lives of marginalized women and children of Harare's underprivileged areas, acknowledging their plight as mothers, caregivers, breadwinners, sexualized objects and vulnerable bodies.

After Media Matters caught an all - male Fox Business panel attacking women breadwinners as a sign of society's downfall, Ultraviolet started a petition asking Fox to fire the panelists, and MomsRising launched a Twitter campaign urging Fox to diversify its panels.

As well, she says women continue to bear the lion's share of the responsibility for domestic and childcare responsibilities even if they are the breadwinner, and this means women may need more flexibility in the workplace.

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