Example Sentences

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How are you “selfish” after 2½ years of primary breadwinning and housekeeping?

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021

“Marriage was a relationship between the dominant, breadwinning husband and the subordinate, child-rearing wife,” Ginsburg continued.

From Slate • Sep. 18, 2020

The household quarrels about cleaning and goal-setting and competitive breadwinning have an intriguing texture.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 30, 2019

But consider the national policy focus responsible for that lifestyle: Sweden prizes gender equality, universal child care and a “dual earner-carer” model that features women and men sharing breadwinning and child-rearing roles.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2019

It was not just an ordinary change from one breadwinning place to another.

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford