...What would you do if you had to become the breadwinner for your family? The person I chose to follow around had to do just that. Her husband got Guillain-Barre syndrome and she suddenly became the supplier for her family. How was she going to be able to take care of her husband and make money to support her family? I chose to follow her around because she found a way to do this. I also wanted to know what phNow you may be wondering who I am talking about, so I will tell you more about her. I am talking about a woman named Melissa Leonard. Melissa is one of my families close friends and she never fails to inspire me to do my best. I am glad I got the opportunity to follow her around and see what her life is like on a day to day basis. While...
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...The book “ Breadwinner “ is written by Deborah Ellis and it could be read by both Adult’s and children. The Breadwinner is a novel that is about the war in Afghanistan with the Talibans. Deborah Ellis is trying to deliver a message that is saying that girls are allowed to be free and have their own freedom. Freedom is when you have the right to do the things you want to do. In the beginning of the chapters seven Parvana was going outside again appearing like a boy into the streets this time she was selling her dad’s writing equipment to earn some money for her family. After couple of hours a Taliban started to walk over he said “ you are a letter reader?” in Pashtu . The Taliban pulled a letter out of his pocket that was from his Aunt...
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...family. However having one breadwinner in a family would make it so that one may have to constantly work in order to provide for that family. That being said having more than one breadwinner or breadwinners a person can choose to work less and spend more time at home. In order to take care of other priorities. It’s not always easy to choose work or spending time at home especially in today’s society, as the cost of living has inflated over the years, one may worbout not saving enough for retirement as well as not having enough money for other necessities such as food gas or maybe even sending their kids to school. Let’s face it, we live in a constantly changing world where it seems the price of just being on this earth is already too high. With budget cuts, war , natural disasters, and everything else that has to do with our modern day society we all have to pay towards them if it’s out of pocket or some other way. The sad reality is we all want a to picture ourselves being retired at an old but still relatively young age to where we can still enjoy our lives with our families, but with the world always at a change and the event you don’t have another partner their to support you, that reality may seem hazy. Having two breadwinner’s in a family however, makes it easier for parents or guardians to provide basic necessities such as food, clothing , and shelter. Besides being able to provide those basic needs I’ve mentioned, a family with two breadwinners are able to accomplish...
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...The Breadwinner Culminating Writing Assessment “Hit,” “Bang” there goes the talib again someone breaking the rules everyone near in shock. Living life under taliban rule isn’t easy. Achieving success. The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis is about a girl named Parvana that goes through life in talib rule. Life under the taliban rule isn’t safe, women are not allowed to go outside, they are forced to walk with men, and children are not allowed to go to school. First of all, Parvana shows perseverance when the taliban soldiers busted into her house going through everything. “She threw herself at the soldiers with such force that they both fell to the ground.” Parvana remembered all of her father’s books that they had hidden because books were banned...
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...Quran and Sunnah and help other brother from the gift of dawat. As a Breadwinner: I want to see myself as a person who take care of take care of his family as much as he loves them. As an obedient Son, loving brother and helping relative. I want to see myself as the person who loves cares and help and not only earn money but earn respect. 50 Year Vision As a Professional: 1. I want to see myself as a Technology Entrepreneur and CEO of self-developed Company. 2. The company which develop designs and sell OS, electronic devices, their apps and soft wares. 3. The company which generates jobs for those peoples who believe in it’s believed. 4. The company which donates 20 % of its income to the needy people. 5. The company which help up comers of IT industry with 10% income. 6. The company based on “Making Life easier” motto. 7. I want to give at least speech on TED stage about technology entrepreneurship. As a Muslim: 1. I want to see myself a person resemblance to Prophet MUHAMMAD (S.A.W.W) from deeds, style and dressing. 2. A person who seek guidance from Sahabas(R.A). 3. A person who follow rules of Quran and Sunnah. 4. A person who help fellow brother with a gift of tableegh. 5. A Person who makes sure that his upcoming generation tastes the fruit of real Islamic environment. As a Breadwinner:...
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...such as nuclear, extended and commune families. Nuclear is a family with a husband, wife, and children; extended has a husband, wife, children and near relatives; a commune family would be a foster home or something similar to that. in this institution there are two groups that everything can fit into: primary and secondary. A primary group is defined as a small group whose members have very close relationships over a long period of time. A secondary group is usually a larger and less loving group compared to the primary group. Roles such as a scapegoat, clown, breadwinner and caretaker have changed greatly throughout the last 50 years. Not so much the scapegoat or clown, but the breadwinner and caretaker have changed. In the 1950s the breadwinner was almost always a male, generally the father; and the caretaker was almost always a female, the mother. In more recent times there has been more than one breadwinner which can be of either sex. Today the caretaker is still a female for the majority, but the position as defined by that sex as it once was. Rules like folkways, mores, and laws haven't necessarily decreased, but the structural lines have definitly blurred. Folkways that can be as simple as having respect for your family members have faded. Presently, there is less respect towards family members especially in the child to parent...
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...recession and lost their jobs spend just about as much time caring for their children as their working spouse does. Society at this point expects the man to be the sole breadwinner of the household and the recession is not having a dramatic effect on this. Men are not expected to tend to housework but to search for more work in order to provide for their family. I believe this is due to the way we as a society view masculinity and the role of the man in the household. In my opinion, I don’t believe it’s so much the recession but how we as a society view gender roles in America. Do companies have a responsibility to raise women’s salaries to accommodate their roles as primary breadwinners? Why or why not? Yes I believe that all companies do have an obligation to provide just as much pay to women as they do to men. If a women can do all the same work as well, if not better than their male counterpart then why wouldn’t they deserve just as much as men? I believe the fact that a women who is working full time only makes between 77 percent to 80 percent of her male counterpart working full time is a travesty. this notion that women are traditionally not the breadwinners in the household therefore they get less pay is an archaic idea to say the least. I believe that even if the women is not necessarily the sole breadwinner of the household she should still be rewarded equally for the same work as her male...
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...of gender and the identity of women. Men were usually portrayed as the “breadwinners,” as well as the well-educated and the sole foundation of the family. Men had to show their masculinity by being the very upper-hand of the family. Women are portrayed as sensitive, sweet, caring, faithful, moody, naïve, etc. As a way to complete them as a whole, women needed men in their lives. However, women held the least power of the family and believed that they only had a purpose of being housewives. The ideal images of gender roles between men and women, and the identities of women can lead to stereotypes that are associated with Kate Chopin’s short story “Desiree’s Baby.” In “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, gender played a big role in the life Desiree as well as Armand Aubigny. Desiree was described as “beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere— the idol of Valmonde” (1). Desiree was illustrated as if she was down to earth and had a very warm personality. At first she was nameless, like most women when they are first named by their primary families and renamed when they get married. Desiree nameless when she was first found by the Valmonde family, and then they took her in as their own and she adopted their family name. Desiree undergoes another name change when she later marries a wealthy man by the name of Armand and inherited the family name of Aubigny. Armand was most likely the “breadwinner.” He was the masculine type, a very strict slave owner, arrogant but still...
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...Milliken-Setser G425/SYO4180 Section 07 Work and Family. Outline Introduction I. How much families have been impacted by the recession. II. How the family dynamics have changed including sharing of household duties and childcare. III. What effect these changes have made to father-child relationships. A. Positive changes B. Negative changes IV. How Society views working fathers A Inside home B. Outside home V. How have marriages been affected by these changes. A. Man's identity affected by ability to provide for family. B. Many wives have taken over as the main breadwinner because due to the Great Recession. Conclusion In four out of ten American households with children under age 18, mothers are the sole or main breadwinner. The recession has played a significant role in the increase of pushing women into the role of breadwinner. Many men were laid off during the recession because the brunt of their jobs were held in the construction and manufacturing businesses. For husbands and fathers, a significant part of their identity is related to their ability to provide for their family. How has this changed since the Great Recession? How are families adjusting? Sociologist Christine Whelan, asks the following questions in an essay "A Feminist-Friendly Recession" published in the 2009 State of Our Unions report: How is the family life of these unemployed fathers? Are they spending more time with their children, overseeing...
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...psychological problems. 3) Gender roles reverses and women work more than they do if married to a man with high income than them. 4) Wives end to distort secretly their income in order to reduce and avert the risk of divorce. This results to dishonesty in the marriage. The paper also concludes by noting the various flaws and weaknesses found in the sources used to draw arguments for the question under study. The paper ends by noting that monetary gains do not necessarily lead to a happy marriage; true love does. In the traditional family setting, men played a very important role in the family. They were the sole breadwinners while women stayed at home, attending to matrimonial duties and nurturing their children. This is what constituted gender roles, and it was the sole pride of all sexes. Men were proud of their family roles. They were the sole breadwinners and heads of their families. It gave them self-esteem, respect and a feeling of worthiness to both their families, peers and the community in general. Women were also proud of their roles, acting as caretakers in the family while nurturing children at the same time. However, time has been drastically changing. The...
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...Money and Marriage - Breadwinner Wives Adrian M. Wright Com 172 03/21/2012 Lilac Bauer Money and Marriage - Breadwinner Wives “I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.” We have all heard those lyrics before but how true are those words? Merriam-Webster defines marriage as (1) the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. The roles of a married man and woman have changed so much over the years. Women now maintain a present role in the work force and in a lot of cases surpassed men in the corporate environment. The dynamics of marriage has also changed; some men have taken the role as a “stay at home dad” and assumed the duties of keeping the house or maintain only blue collar jobs. What happens to a marriage when the female is the primary wage earner and the male is the secondary? When this happens it creates an environment of inferiority, confuse the marriage structure, and can lead to infidelity and abuse. However, many couples have adapted to these generational changes and united to make lasting marriages. When the wife is the breadwinner in a marriage it creates an environment that the man is inferior to the woman. Since the institution of women’s rights, more women have set out to prove their independence by obtaining educational degrees and maintaining the same or higher roles than man in the work place. (Tichenor, 2005) Suppose the woman is an attorney...
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...financial with food and shelter, No it wouldn’t. * Thinking About Life Insurance. What were your feelings about the need for life insurance before you read this chapter? What are they now? Have they been influenced by the recent poor economy? Before reading this chapter I felt that life insurance is very important aspect for those who have heirs. I have purchase life insurance for both of my children using my auto insurance and even if I get rid of my car I can continue to pay on my life insurance. Life insurance has not been influenced by recent poor economy, now you can purchase life insurance at an affordable amount. * Life Insurance for Married Couples. In many married-couple families, one of the spouses is the primary breadwinner, and the other focuses more on homemaking duties. In your view, how does such an arrangement affect the approach that should be taken for each spouse in terms of life...
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...Phil Dunphy who is a the breadwinner that works as a real estate agent while his wife Claire Dunphy is a stay-at-home mother. The two of them have three kids; a daughter named Haley who is attractive but known as the “dumb blonde” (but is in fact not actually blonde), a daughter named...
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...“Lucy Hires a Maid”, Ricky notices how overwhelmed and tired Lucy is with all the house chores and caring for their new-born son. He sends in a note to the employment agency for a maid but leaves the responsibility of interviewing and hiring her to Lucy. Lucy caves in to the first woman who arrives and this maid, Mrs. Porter, is the opposite of what they need; she eats all their food and is no help with the baby. Both Lucy and Ricky are terrified of her but in the end Ricky calls her up and fires her. Messages about gender in I Love Lucy illustrate that women should work inside of the house and men should work outside of the house because women are caretakers and men are money makers through Lucy’s status as a mother, Ricky’s status as breadwinner, and Lucy’s inability to act in a business fashion. Gender roles are very obvious in I Love Lucy, as Lucy acts like the “ideal” American housewife; she does not have a professional job and puts on a dumbfounded face whenever Ricky talks about business, politics, economics, or anything that does not relate to housework. Lucy takes complete care of Ricky Jr, their son. In episode 23, during season 2, Lucy tries to get Ricky to be the one to take care of the crying baby at night. Ricky responds, “[No,] That’s what mothers are for!” (“Lucy Hires a Maid”). Lucy’s focus is on making meals, keeping a clean home, and caring for her family. She encompasses these “feminine” traits of dependency, nurturing, and accepting. Lucy fits the cultural...
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...home have doubled since the 1950’s. There is approximately 72 million women who hold jobs or are looking for jobs, accounting for 58.6 percent of the American workforce, according to the U.S. Department of Labor (2010). In the evolution of gender roles, women account for more than half of the labor force, earn a majority of their families' income, and still contribute more around the home than their husbands. For families with children, a new economic reality is further influencing an already-growing trend, which is women asserting the role as primary breadwinners while husbands adopt the role of primary caregivers. "Some 140,000 married men acted as their family's primary caregivers last year [2008], up from 98,000 in 2003." (Gomstyn, 2012). As previously stated, women account for more than half of the American workforce, and “the last time that the economic climate moved such large numbers of women into primary breadwinner roles was the Great Depression” (Coontz, 2010). Nevertheless, even with such dramatic changes in the labor force, women on average make about 78 cents for each dollar earned by men-- according to the most recent U.S. Census data; making it increasingly difficult for women to successfully subsidize the income of their once breadwinning husbands. In a “Ask a Working Woman Survey Report”, women were asked what proportion of their family’s income they personally earned- all or almost all, more than half, about half, less than half,...
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