More and more Canadian women are the breadwinners in their families — but there's a catch.Women's contributions to family income have increased over the last 30 years, coinciding with their growth in ...

From 2019-2021, the share of female breadwinners in Canada represented nearly 30 per cent of households, while that number was 23 per cent back in 1996.

Nearly another one-quarter of mothers—22.4 percent—were co-breadwinners, bringing home between 25 percent and 49 percent of earnings for their families. Other key findings from the report include: ...