The term breadwinner dates from the 19th century, and the meaning today seems pretty self-evident. Bread = money + winning = I making it. But the term has a larger meaning in that it also suggests how we provide for our basic needs, how we sustain ourselves. For a long time, breadwinner seemed to refer only to men, that is, the people who brought home the salary. But the importance of Liza Mundy's enlightening cover story about how women will soon overtake men in terms of supporting families is that it speaks to the larger changes in society caused by this new reality. "The more I looked into this, the more I realized we are living through a revolution equally or more important than the cultural transformation of the 1960s and '70S>" Mundy says. "As wrenching a shift as this may be, I came to feel very optimistic about how our lives will unfold."
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