{"id":16141,"date":"2013-05-29T11:51:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/breadwinner-moms-on-the-rise-tell-us-your-experience\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:31:51","slug":"breadwinner-moms-on-the-rise-tell-us-your-experience","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/05\/29\/breadwinner-moms-on-the-rise-tell-us-your-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Breadwinner moms on the rise: Tell us your experience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our new report on “Breadwinner Moms<\/a>” has been the focus of widespread media coverage and much discussion about its finding that mothers are now the sole or primary income provider in a record 40% of households with children.<\/p>\n\n

“Breadwinner Moms” could just have aptly been called, as it was by Washington, D.C.’s daily newspaper, the Express, “The New Home Economics<\/a>,” with its adaptation of the iconic picture of Rosie the Riveter<\/a> who symbolized the women who took jobs in U.S. munitions plants during World War II to replace the men who had gone off to war.<\/p>\n\n

What has fueled much of the conversation was what the Washington Post called the “sweeping change in traditional gender roles and family life<\/a> over a few short decades” and how the public has viewed them. Some findings:<\/p>\n\n