TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Drago, Robert
AU  - Black, David
AU  - Wooden, Mark
        TI  - Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources
        PY  - 2004/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1308
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1308
        AB  - We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner – what we term female breadwinner households – and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesise, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the persistent group we further distinguish those couples where the dominance of a female earner is related to economic factors and those where it appears associated with a purposeful gender equity strategy. We again hypothesise and confirm that these household types significantly diverge, finding that men in the economic group exhibit low SES, poor labour market position, and low levels of commitment to family, while both the women and men in the equity type often achieve positive outcomes regarding gender equity and economic and family success.
        KW  - dual-earner couples
KW  - female breadwinners
KW  - family structure
KW  - gender-role ideology
KW  - HILDA Survey
KW  - longitudinal data
        ER  -