Breadwinners

What started as local bartering to counter the collapse of the public distribution system in the 1990s has led to women becoming the unofficial breadwinners of today.

According to Masanda, the structure of the Filipino family, particularly the traditional role of fathers as primary breadwinners, significantly influences family dynamics.

We’re talking about thousands of suddenly unemployed individuals, families losing their breadwinners, and a surge in desperation that could fuel crime and social instability.

A commission should be set up to cater for many orphans, widows, and widowers whose future had been put in jeopardy as a result of the killings of their breadwinners.

Breadwinners, who end up as a burden to their loved ones, are also the cause of generational poverty in most parts of Nigeria.

During the pandemic, Mason says many women, already stretched thin as both breadwinners and primary caregivers, now are charged with teaching kids.

Many families feed on the daily earnings of their breadwinners and journeying from one community to another, though vital, is fraught with danger.

This has particularly affected women as most domestic workers are breadwinners and single mothers.

We can recover money but lives lost are lost for good and the families will have lost breadwinners,” said the official on condition of anonymity.

Why do breadwinners treat themselves better than their families?

On a domestic scale, we can look at the way the males are often seen as the breadwinners in Guyanese homes.

About 10 million Filipinos work overseas and are usually the breadwinners for their families back home, providing most of the household budgets and contributing nearly 70% of overall national output.

He said that the most painful aspect of the building collapse is the deaths of innocent persons who are breadwinners of their respective families.

Nearly 5,000 fishermen from various districts are expected to attend the event where two fishermen families which lost their breadwinners in accidents, will also receive an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh each.

Over the last few years, many efforts in India are being made to reduce inequalities between men and women and to bring them at par, not just at the workplace, but also in politics, in businesses and to make them breadwinners for their families.

The family members of the deceased are now leading a very miserable life after losing their breadwinners, an activist said adding that they should be provided justice.

In other words, the poorest families are typically less bound by cultural expectations and norms, and women tend to have more freedom to become family breadwinners out of necessity.

There are certain assumed and assigned roles of women that are related to domestic chores compared with men who are the breadwinners and professionals of the family.