Being 2014 has nothing to do with this. A man should be able to provide for his family.
Well, in most cases they are more likely to get better pay and flexibility in choosing the working hours and type of work so if they try , its going to be better for the family. But all in all it should be fine as long as one is doing their best to contribute to the welfare of the family in one way or another.
Let the one who can pay the bill pay, but then help out with other responsibilities at home. I only find it shameful for those who make their wife pay all the bills and yet want her to do all the chores at home too, and won't help with taking care of kids either .. I have a friend, whose husband ruined his business due to mismanagement, won't take up a job since it hurts his ego to work for someone( His words. -_-) and yet keeps sitting or sleeping like a log at home.
She cooks and leave home in the morning, comes back in evening (9 hours), cooks the dinner, and looks after the homework of the kids and all. He simply does nothing but pick the kid from school( which he avoids if she is at home by chance) . The food is ready but kid being kid often demands stupid snacks instead, so the food is ignored as it's easier to hand the kids a bag of chips. They have a maid for some basic chores like cleaning, but anything she doesn't do or if she is on leave, is left to be attended by my friend alone. Once she asked him to at least help with covers for the school books for the kid. His answer was point blank - "I don't know how to do it." Her weekends are spent doing everything else left attended the rest of the week.
The guy is useless ... It was so awkward when once he had been visiting his mother who was ill... The friend called to ask for her health and he said that his mum was still quite in a bad shape and was doing dishes in the kitchen. ... She told him to at least help his mom with dishes or he was only making it more difficult for her even by visiting her( he ate the damn food after all) ... not that it made any affect...
Now that's one jerk who should be ashamed for not footing the bills since he obviously doesn't want to do anything which is supposed to be women's work due to gender role crap no matter what. And yet won't work to pay the bills either...