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Female Breadwinners Changing American Families

Gender roles and the economy are both changing, and that has radically changed women's roles, from stay-at-home to being breadwinner. A USA Today analysis of Census Bureau data suggests that sea change is happening at college campuses on upward. Today, when one spouse works full time and the other stays home, it's the wife who is the sole breadwinner in a record 23% of families, the analysis finds. When the Census started tracking this in 1976, the number was 6%.

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