If the breadwinner is brought home sick, it matters not how manifold the duties of the mother, no trained nurse can take the place of the wife at the bedside.
A subtle distinction divided her from the over-dressed shopgirls around her as completely as her sex separated her from the portly masculine breadwinner in the opposite seat.
The annual interest each Austro-Hungarian breadwinner will have to pay on the war loans is $32.
The wages of the breadwinner even when in full work may be insufficient to afford adequate support for a numerous family.
Since then Anne had been the head of the family—father, mother, and breadwinner rolled into one.
We shall manage somehow,” said Bertha rather vaguely, for she could not tell this man, who was almost a stranger, that she deemed it her duty to be breadwinner for the family as far as she could.
In summer, when the ground is dry, it was bearable, for then the Kamenivke water-carrier was merely bathed in sweat as he toiled up the hill, and the Jewish breadwinner has been used to that for ages.
The orphan and herbreadwinner are being led to the marriage canopy in the graveyard!
Relief, it seemed to me, could be brought to the breadwinner by separating from her the girl who works for luxuries.
They could afford to accept what the breadwinner found insufficient.
It is with hope for the material betterment of the breadwinning woman, for the moral advancement of the semi-breadwinner and the esthetic improvement of the country, that I submit what seems a rational plan.
On the other hand, the woman must realize that she has no more right to shirk the business of wifehood and motherhood than the man has to shirk his business as breadwinner for the household.
He helps out with cash or credit the widow who is in straits, or the breadwinner who is crippled or for some other cause temporarily out of work.
In the city the breadwinneris a working man or an immigrant.
They are breadwinners, and thebreadwinner is the unit of value on whom the standard of American social and religious life is measured.
So far, I have ignored the fact that, in the poor home, the woman is often the breadwinner as well as the homemaker.
Where the breadwinner is disabled, or the woman is a deserted wife or widow, work is, of course, necessary.
One of the few rules which it is safe to follow blindly is the rule that we should not encourage any woman to become the breadwinner who has an able-bodied, unemployed man in the house.
He must then for the time being turn the baby's breadwinner as well as her caretaker.
And if the little breadwinner was not at his crossing, where would the food come from for Pepper and Trusty?
