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Go to citi.com/simplicity to apply. welcome back. i'm 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 that's the clear. >> let's be clear. not everyone over there is quite so backward. the women of fox very quickly stepped up to school their male colleagues on the ways of the world. here is greta van susteren writin...

We never had the conversation you do this, i'll do that. we both just do it. >> but for men in particular, i think it's also a professional struggle. it is not as easy if you're 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 i'm not working full-time crazy i can do that. when i was building my agency, i couldn't do that so is there a challenge for men, no question about it. >> can we play that again? >> just the natural order. >> we are going to go to break. ...

Enlts. so there's 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 you're 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 you know that by looking at young women who are already in most major metros outearning their male p...

Have men as the primary bread winner, it is only 5%. so part of what we're 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 they're home or working, making a lot of money. i think the empowering thing for women is in the choice. if they get to choose whether t...

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 family. that's up from just 11% in 1960. the reaction to that reality is an of feminisms on the march. an...