Stephanie Coontz is Director of Research and Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families and teaches History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She has authored seven books on marriage and family life, including A Strange Stirring: ‘The Feminine Mystique’ and American Women at the Down of the 1960s, and Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage. More information at http://www.stephaniecoontz.com
There Is No Such Thing as the ‘Traditional Male Breadwinner’
If we’re ever going to fix our problems accommodating both work and family in our lives, we have to stop thinking that the dilemmas we face today stem from the collapse of the traditional male-breadwinner family. There is no such …