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Go to citi.com/simplicity to apply. welcome back. im melissa harris-perry and we are looking at the pew research center survey released this week that focused on women as bread winners and how very frightening that growing trend is for frightening, apparently, to the men of fox news. >> recognizing that having moms as the primary bread winner is bad for kids and reality shows us thats the clear. >> lets be clear. not everyone over there is quite so backward. the women of fox very quickly stepp...

We never had the conversation you do this, ill do that. we both just do it. >> but for men in particular, i think its also a professional struggle. it is not as easy if youre a man i think to go into your boss and say i want to work part-time and stay on this career track. >> or i have to leave at 6:30 because i have to have ab a concert. my point now that im not working full-time crazy i can do that. when i was building my agency, i couldnt do that so is there a challenge for men, no question a...

Enlts. so theres all kinds of guilt that women face over this. but getting back to the overall trend which is more and more women being the bread winner, the primary bread winner in their household. first i think youre right to underscore. two very different demographics here. one is single mothers and one is thewise are outearning the husband. in that group it is largely a upper middle class white phenomenon at this point. but we are going to see more and more movement in this direction. and yo...

Have men as the primary bread winner, it is only 5%. so part of what were seeing is a split where it can be a good thing, it can be an empowering thing and a feminist thing for women to be playing this role. and it also scrambles some of our gender norms about masculinity. but also often it is not by choice. in many cases people need to earn more money for the family. >> and part of that is black women are having a hard time getting married. >> okay. whether theyre home or working, making a lot ...

Today about a new study from the pew research center called bread winner moms, you might think we finally arrived at that peace of mind. but that title and the positive-sounding headlines belies some pretty jaw-dropping details in the study, showing just how far from that promise we really are. the main point that was taken away from the report is that 40% of all households, all of the children under the age of 18, include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the famil...

Record number of women. 40%, to be exact, who are now the main providers for their families back in the 60s, it was just 11% of women who were the sole or primary bread winners. this rise of working moms still get mixed opinions from the american public. only one in five people think working mothers with young kids is a good thing for our entire society. who is to say whats good for any family? well talk about that here as we spin. >> all right. >> are you ready? >> im excited. you teased it rea...

Erpg less than men so many households where women provide the main source of income they less well off than other households. >> or less well off than they were. >> right. the society hasnt caught up with the implications of what it means to have a woman who is the main bread winner. what happens to child care and all of those subtle issues of masculine identity and things like that? >> deeper into the study what you addressed there. you look at issues with stress, problems at home and problems ...

For married couples with childrens percentage of morgs taking home more than their husbands has increased nearly six fold since 1960 then only 4% made more money than their husband and now its 23%. the report also says families tend to earn more as a whole when the mother, not the father is the bread winner. that may have to do with education. the report says there is now a better chance a married mother is better educated than her husband than the other way around. and among married couples wit...

The peace corps. then one neighbor said the last year she hasnt seen her too much. she converted to islam and hasnt been seen as much in the neighborhood and has been a lot more quiet. thats pretty much what we know of her at this point. we do know that the fbi has definitely trying to get in contact with her for the last few days, though. >> i understand that she -- she claims -- no reason to disbelieve her -- that she works 70 to 830 hours aweek and basically shes the bread winner. im not so s...

The peace corps. then one neighbor said the last year she hasnt seen her too much. she converted to islam and hasnt been seen as much in the neighborhood and has been a lot more quiet. thats pretty much what we know of her at this point. we do know that the fbi has definitely trying to get in contact with her for the last few days, though. >> i understand that she -- she claims -- no reason to disbelieve her -- that she works 70 to 830 hours aweek and basically shes the bread winner. im not so s...