By contrast, men are more likely to gain where resources are channelled via the main breadwinner or taxpayer.
It also upholds the traditional family, with one male breadwinner bringing home a family wage.
Today many women with a family earn money for extras but need state assistance if the male breadwinner disappears.
In post-male breadwinner states it can no longer be assumed that fatherhood means providing.
In working class households where many members previously worked in industry, the trend turned towards a single male breadwinner.
In nearly all cases (94%) their family breadwinner at that time (usually the father) had a working-class occupation (skilled, semiskilled, or unskilled manual worker).
The male's role in a classically corporatist society is that of breadwinner for the family as a whole; the female's role is that of homemaker.
Insurance was usually held by the breadwinner of the family, which at the turn of the century was almost universally the husband.
