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Motherhood became a backup plan to the modern economy.
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Society celebrates women for surviving the pressure it created.
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The economy drafted Mom and called it "progress."
BRIEFING
Grant here. The numbers are in, and it looks like the ladies are now bringing in the bacon. Or bread. New figures show that nearly 70% of working American mothers are now breadwinners or co-breadwinners for their families. Let’s break it down.
Women are literally working hard for the money. Whether it's due to economic constraints or modern feminism, the family hierarchy has flipped, and mothers are now the sole providers for the family.
SOURCE
Almost 70% of American mothers are now breadwinners for their families, huge increase over the last few decades. Via @amprog
Breadwinners earn at least half of the family’s income and co-breadwinners earn at least one-quarter of the income #HappyMothersDay pic.twitter.com/7OjTQ3bmbi
— Sara Eisen (@SaraEisen) May 11, 2026
The X post frames this as a milestone, and sure, it kind of is. But this is also showing how much pressure the modern family now places on mothers.
These figures come from the Center for American Progress, which also reported that in 2023, 45% of mothers were breadwinners, meaning they earned at least half of family income, while about 24% were co-breadwinners, bringing the total to 69% of working mothers.
Then Pew Research adds another perspective, showing that in 2022, 16% of opposite-sex marriages had wives who were the sole or primary breadwinners, roughly triple the share from 50 years earlier. Pew also found that even as wives’ financial contributions have grown, women still pick up a heavier load when it comes to household chores and caregiving. So they're getting hit on two fronts: financial and rearing.
DEBRIEFING
Clearly, based on these numbers, American motherhood is being pulled in two different directions at once.
The economy made Mom’s income harder to live without, while modern feminism spent years telling women that paid work was the clearest proof of independence. Both of these things have come together to create a pressure cooker where mothers are expected to earn, nurture, manage, organize, and keep the household moving. All while expected to stay silent under the pressure.
Sure, many women want careers and can definitely thrive in them, but when nearly 70% of working mothers are financially essential to the household, something has gone a bit off the rails.
NOW YOU KNOW
Mom became the financial safety net.
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Baloney, another rigged stat. More men were laid off , mainly white men, in the Covid era than more than any other demographic and many, such as myself, never recovered and had to retire early. All of us were deleted from the work rolls. Also using a weighted average model, does this factor in the female celebrities making a ton of cash to sing music that mostly girls, and James Comey, listen to? More female celebrities make the big money these days, and that ups the average. And factor in divorces, where the women 95% of the time, gets custody of the kids regardless of the financial and moral standing of the father, they are considered the sole breadwinner, EVEN though part of that income is the exorbitant child support they always receive. ( such in my case) In fact I made more than my ex wife, and had to pay out more in household expenditures for TWO households even though she had more schooling and her earning capacity was higher but chose not to enhance her career to collect maximum support.. Also…isn’t there a wage gap between men and women( what is a woman by the way?)? If so how is this stat accurate, since men make SO much more than women, and how do we accurately extrapolate it?
so, how’s that Feminism workin’ for ya, ladies?
The demolition of the American nuclear family is now complete. Expect lower birth rates and higher abortion rates, as well, to comply with globalist depopulation goals.
The demolition of the American nuclear family is now completed. Expect lower birth rates and higher abortion rates, as well, to comply with globalist depopulation goals.
I call them the histrionic narcissistic baby killing female… the core tenet of the Democratic party.