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Although women worldwide are increasingly taking on breadwinner roles, little is known about the experiences of unmarried breadwinner daughters, particularly those in non-Western societies who belong to cultures with rigid gender role prescriptions. This study uses a life-story interview approach to explore the gender and cultural identity work of seven unmarried South African Indian daughters who are the breadwinners in their natal families. The findings of this study illuminate the gender and cultural identity work these women engage in to negotiate the contradictions between cultural prescriptions and their new roles as family breadwinners. In contradiction to the idea that women breadwinners who earn high salaries gain power in their families, the present study found financial control did not result in the kind of power traditionally associated with the breadwinner role. This research also demonstrates the ways in which the women resisted the constrictions of their family roles despite the fact that they were the breadwinners in their families.
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