They call them the new bread earners. They are women, and they are set to take over.
Women are beginning to rise 11 to the top in the workplace all over the developed world. New figures show that in almost a third of American 12 with a working wife, the woman brings home more money than her husband and that they now occupy half the country"s "high-paying, executive, administrative and 13 occupations", compared with 34 per cent 20 years ago.
The trend is 14 by two main factors, experts say—a 15 acceptance of men as househusbands and mass unemployment of male white-collar workers from the technology, finance and media industries in the last three years.
The University of Maryland has 16 a report that shows women to be the chief earner in 11 per cent of all US marriages.
Pushing a buggy (婴儿车) on a sunny afternoon in New York"s Central Park last week, Jonathan Blinderman, 33, said, he was 17 he had been able to see every moment of his daughter Lindsay"s first six months of life while his wife, Sage, was out working.
It is a sign of these times of 18 that when he mentions his status at parties he is either praised as a saint or 19 as a slave-cure-freeloader (爱占便宜的). For the revolution is nowhere near complete.
But Maria Cancian, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, said 20 women were increasingly looking for househusbands.
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