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Sociology

Breadwinner, Homemaker, and Egalitarian Family Wage Typologies

Quick fact

The 'family wage' was never a legal guarantee; it was a social ideal that expected a husband's earnings to support a stay-at-home wife and children, yet in practice many working-class families needed multiple incomes even in its heyday.

Why this is interesting

You may have grown up with two parents working, but the 'stay-at-home mom' is a relatively recent idea—not eternal default. What makes a family's income arrangement change?