Would the Provider Role -the idea and practice that men should be the lead and bread winner - exist forever?

Question

Would the Provider Role -the idea and practice that men should be the lead and bread winner - exist forever?

Answer 1

the idea? yes. its in our nature to want to be the bread winner, as you call it. whether or not women like it, men naturally have a need to be needed. its not a sexist thing, its a human thing.

Answer 2

It doesn't really exist now. There are alot of families where the mother has the career and the father is being a stay at home dad.Women nowadays have great careers with awesome pay and don't need aman to lead them into anything or be their bread winner. Their winning their own bread and paying someone to toast it!

Women are alot more independent now adays so no What little bit of the provider role that exists in your way of thinking is not here forever.

Answer 3

I should hope that the opportunity exists for such to be the case, but considering how many single mothers there are out there, i fear that the boys that WILL be men may not know how to be the providers. Sad state of affairs, but not to sound extremely dour, the head of a household SHOULD be the man, but not because of the traditional "Bread Winner" drama. Women, in some cases, make the larger share of the money in households now. That, to me, is inconsequential. I believe that mothers SHOULD instill in their daughters a sense of independence, but not at the expense of their sons. That having been said, a man should be raised with the expectation that he will be the head of the household.

Answer 4

No, it's actually a relatively "new" concept.



In hunter-gatherer societies, *both* sexes provided food. The men hunted for meat. The women gathered edible plants, fruits, nuts, tubers and berries. Hunting was a difficult job, as the men depended on stone and wood tools and their own wits. Most days, they couldn't kill anything, or they would be gone for long periods of time stalking game. So, the group depended on women for their day-to-day sustenance.



The idea of women staying in the home and raising the children while men go out to work really didn't get into full swing until the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century. For most of history, women's labor has been necesary for survival. Women have worked side-by-side with their men in the fields and taking care of livestock. Women also took part in "household production" - meaning, they would make things (clothes, wool, beer, etc.) in their homes both for their families use, and to sell to make some money.



The long and short of it being, the whole "men as bread-winner" thing has been a flash in the pan idea as far as history is concerned, and it is now on its way out.

Answer 5

Its already phased out alot from the way that it used to be. Certain things such as chivalry tend to look back on old ways of thinking now a days and put those things onto a pedestal. I'm not saying that opening a door for a woman is a bad thing... I enjoy it... but a woman shouldn't feel like they can't do it themselves because they let a man do it for them. Its a double edged sword... try to do something nice and it is percieved as looking down upon or taking dominance over the oposite sex. These are the things that we should be working on... Everything stems from that.

Answer 6

It has already begun to fade into the background. There are many successful business women in the workforce today and the numbers are growing. My exhusband stayed at home for three years while I worked and he did and excellent job keeping house and even had dinner on the table when I got home from a hard day's work.

Answer 7

I think that it will always exist,even if only one men has this idea in his head.The fact that some nations start to ignore it or get over it doesn't mean that all do.We have to admit that even though we try to say that we have got over it it still poisons our brain,it will take a long time to be extermined.Since nazism and comunism still lives this idea will live two.

Mabye in another few tousand years it will finaly be just past

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Answer 8

No, women are slowly becoming more powerful in society. Let's hope Hillary wins 08 election. Also, that statement is not relevant to single parent mothers is it? They do a hell of a lot all on their own.

Answer 9

No, eventually that role will be delegated to the 1 who has the best educational credentials.

Answer 10

It won't but it will take time... Women of the world, unite and take of those jobs men are dominating!

Answer 11

no chance in this day and age when you have kids who would some day need to attend university

Answer 12

psychology got it in one.

Answer 13

I hope not. that's such a load of crap.