I recall very strongly a column by Rebbetzin Jungries’ that appeared in the Jewish Press back in the summer of 2008. In the column two young women wrote about how their fathers were put down to their faces because they worked instead of learned full-time.
The first one wrote (emphasis mine):
Once, my principal accused me of doing some inappropriate things that I would never dream of doing. When I told her that I was raised differently and that my Yiddishkeit meant too much to me to ever participate in the activities she accused me of, she said that she would expect such behavior from me because I was “not a good girl” as I unfortunately “come from a working family.” Even more hurtful was when I was told to “not lower myself to my father’s level” by marrying a working guy even if he would devote time to Torah.
The second one described what happened to her as she was applying for seminaries:
So, yeah, in at least some places, they genuinely disrespect people who don’t learn full-time.
The Wolf