breadwinner Význam & definice

Příklady breadwinner

• The traditional, married, male breadwinner model family was long believed by policy-makers to offer protection against risk, particularly for women and children.

• This is also true of families in which the main breadwinner is the professionally employed wife and the husband is a secondary provider.

• It is argued that this was due to young women's increasing economic importance as household breadwinners.

• Through either unemployment or divorce, single women frequently became the sole breadwinner for their extended families.

• This means that the future consumption of a breadwinner's surviving dependents is affected only marginally by the size of his bequest.

• In addition, marital tensions may intensity after retirement because the husband loses his role as main breadwinner.

• In the strictest terms, all households are multi-active, but when household heads are considered as breadwinners, single-active households can be identified.

• Insurance was usually held by the breadwinner of the family, which at the turn of the century was almost universally the husband.