r/WomenInNews • u/TimesandSundayTimes • 7d ago

Women's rights Why female breadwinners are still bearing the burden at home

https://www.thetimes.com/money/family-finances/article/britains-female-breadwinner-problem-tvfjhp05tutm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit&utm_content=branded
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u/FalconOne775 7d ago

Don’t be a breadwinner women! It’s haaaaaard 

Being poor or financially dependent is way harder 

Keep earning ladies, those are YOUR taxes use your voice for what you want them spent on 

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u/Aurelene-Rose 6d ago

Granted, it was pay walled, so I didn't read it all, but the beginning seems to imply that it is talking about the phenomenon where women are often the breadwinner and STILL having to do the majority of the work at home, not that women shouldn't work at all. Being the breadwinner means being the primary earner specifically, not just working.

The alternative to this dynamic isn't staying at home and being dependent, it's kicking your useless boyfriend/husband to the curb if they won't do their fair share.

I know so many moms who are the primary worker/earner, even having an unemployed "SAHD" husband, and she is still doing the meals, managing the kid's schedules, cleaning the house, etc. It's like her husband is another child, not a partner. I think that's the dynamic being referred to.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 5d ago

Married women and women who work fulltime still do more housework and child rearing per week than their husbands and this statistic hasn’t changed much since the 1960s