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Title: Breadwinning Mothers, Then and Now
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Publication Year: 2014
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Abstract: The report, Breadwinning Mothers, Then and Now, offers new insights into the demographics of mothers whose earnings help keep their families afloat. Author Sarah Jane Glynn finds that the trend toward female breadwinning continues, in spite of changes to our economic landscape. As our analysis shows, working mothers are not just bringing home pocket money: Nearly two-thirds of mothers are primary or co-breadwinners for their families, including more than half of married mothers52.9 percentwho bring home at least 25 percent of their families incomes. Glynn notes that breadwinning mothers are not all cut from the same cloth. She compares mothers who are single breadwinners, married breadwinners, married co-breadwinners, and married mothers with no earnings along a number of demographics in order to better understand how women tend to combine working with caregiving. She finds notable differences among the groups in terms of family income, race and ethnicity, educational attainment, age, and the age of the youngest child.
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Authors: Glynn, Sarah Jane
Publisher: Center for American Progress
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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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