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In some countries, the male is indeed expected to be the one making income, you know? Because of that, it can be played for drama too.
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Yes, but this is for cases where it's specifically noted that the man is the only one to think this matters.
It shows up in Father Brown (after WWI), with Father Brown of all people calling the guy out for his reactionary attitude (he calls him a dinosaur) that only serves to make him miserable instead of marrying the girl.
No dedicated trope for this one, but its pretty well covered by a constellation of overlapping tropes, mostly of the Values Dissonance or Evolving Trope sort:
- Women Prefer Strong Men: strong here meaning "financially successful and socially dominant"
- Men Are Strong, Women Are Pretty: it is more acceptable for a man to be ugly but successful than attractive but jobless, the opposite is true for women.
- No Guy Wants an Amazon: "Its unattractive for a woman to be a strong provider"
- All Amazons Want Hercules: "only a strong man is worthy of a strong woman"
- House Husband and House Wife : the former is typically treated as a humorous, strange, or even shameful situation, the latter as a quaint but not necessarily bad traditional arrangement.
If nothing else, you might consider adding entries to the Double Standard and Gender Dynamics Index (contrasts) lists.
Edited by Scorpion451
^^For what it's worth, I think you've got the Father Brown reference completely wrong. When Father Brown calls a young man a "dinosaur" (as you say) that was not meant pejoratively; that was meant as a high praise. The actual quote: "Mr. Rook is an extinct animal. He's a plesiosaurus. He did not want to live on his wife or have a wife who could call him a fortune-hunter. Therefore he sulked in a grotesque manner and only came to life again when I brought him the good news that you were ruined. He wanted to work for his wife and not be kept by her." This is high praise; "Mr. Rook" is the hero of that story.
Edited by Florestan
I think there is a bit of Stay in the Kitchen involved, since the attitude is that the wife should be provided for.
The page for Unable to Support a Wife suggests this situation may be playing with that particular trope.
A situation where a man refuses to ask a woman in marriage (or even confess his feelings for her) because she's richer than him/makes more money than him/he's not rich enough to spare his wife from working/is afraid that he'll be seen as a Gold Digger, etc.
Usually played for laughs, with everyone (the woman included) telling him to stop being a romantic idiot and propose already.