Title: One Household, One Income: Challenges of the Sole Financial Provider - Financesonline.com
Headings: One Household, One Income: Challenges of the Sole Financial Provider
One Household, One Income: Challenges of the Sole Financial Provider
SOLE BREADWINNER: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT
THE RISE OF THE SOLE BREADWINNER
CHANGING GENDER EXPECTATIONS AND BREADWINNER ROLES
THE FALL: NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF BEING THE SOLE BREADWINNER
A. EFFECTS ON MARRIAGE
B. EFFECTS ON CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY
C. EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY
D. EFFECTS ON THE PERSON
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By James Anthony

Content: What’s actually new is the dramatic change in gender expectation and traditional family roles where work and being a financial provider are concerned. That is, more women are now sole breadwinners, while there are also children (meaning children that is of age and working) that have also taken up the financial responsibility for the family. In preindustrial times, the economy was a domestic economy, meaning every member of the family contributed to the production of goods needed for the family survival – sewing, making soap, salt or cheese, planting, raising animals. As the economy shifts to industrialization, the production of goods moved out of households and into factories. A clear change is that the workers who produced goods in factories create them not for their families, but for sale, ushering the money economy. For the skill and effort in production, the workers were paid wages used to buy the things they need in other markets. With “production for home” moving out of households, and shifting to “production for others” now done in factories, there emerged a distinction between home and work and women and men roles. During this time, women bore the traditional domestic responsibility while the men were relegated the special responsibility of being the “breadwinner,” bringing home the bread from the income he received from producing goods outside the home. It was this “special responsibility” of being the breadwinner that associated men in this role. CHANGING GENDER EXPECTATIONS AND BREADWINNER ROLES
While the father as man of the house is often the breadwinner, in today’s changing world, mothers can be the sole financial provider while the husband stays at home taking charge of domestic affairs.