Ms. Sugimoto said her mother, Susie, was the principal breadwinner, working as a church secretary.

Mary, aged eleven, became a weaver in the textile mills and the family's principal breadwinner.

Once, as the eldest of seven children, Ms. Damarchi, 29, was the principal breadwinner for her family.

But even though Maryann became the principal breadwinner, he consistently sabotaged any situation that seemed to hold out some promise of security for himself and his family.

As a result, at age 9, Grimaldi became the family's principal breadwinner.

The unemployment rate for the "principal breadwinner" is 12.4% less than the 25% overall rate (June 2012.)

Traditionally, archaeologists have painted men in prehistoric cultures as the principal breadwinners and central figures in the economy of their respective populations.

The couple's longstanding situation in which Mrs. Clinton was the principal breadwinner ceased with their move to Washington.

Women became principal breadwinners in border households.

It also angered Ms. Agger, suddenly the couple's principal breadwinner by far.