I am looking for a pie chart that reflects the statics for head of
household by gender in the United States. Men vs Women in the role
that was predominatly male.

You are perhaps assuming that the spouce who earns the most money is
the head of the household. Not necessarily true. Often both work
outside the home and decision making is shared. Considering a large
number of factors, my guess is a women is head of the household in 60%
of the family units of 2 or more persons, a man only about 39%. This
is partly because in units with only one adult living at home, the
adult is twice as likely to be female in the USA. The answer is
confused by many adults who are physically present in the home quite
rarely.   Neil

"In August, the Census Bureau released a startling new finding: In 22%
    of dual-earner families, women earn more than their husbands or
    partners. When this news was announced, the media took flight--with
    talk shows and news shows debating and discussing this new trend in
    American life."
http://www.listproc.bucknell.edu/archives/femecon-l/200204/msg00012.html

This was written in 2002, so the August date mentioned is actually
August 2001.  As Neil mentioned there are many 1 parent families now,
but I think from the point of view of your question that you're only
interested in traditional man/woman families.

As for your pie chart, in 2001 the number was 78% male and 22% female
as the primary bread winner in 2 income families.  And I'd imagine
it's closer to 75% male and 25% female now and continuing its slow
trend in that direction.

Thank you both for your comments. I was sure I would not be able to
articulate the question properly. My husband thinks men are still the
primary breadwinners in American families. I say with so many single
parents predominatly female, that he is incorrect. I did not honestly
consider the two family income of most families now. I think the
answer to my question is more complicated than I had orginially
thought.Comments?

Here's some old data:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/table2b.htm
It's from the mid 90s, and back then it claims that 36% of US
households had a female head.

I'll look a bit more for newer info.

1997 data:
Single mother families:  24.4%
Single father families:   4.2%
2 parent families     :  71.4%
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/2000004.pdf

Using this along with my first post (which is 2001 data so it's not
exact, but close atleast)
71.4% (2 parents) * 22% (female heads in 2 parent homes) = 15.7%

So 15.7% of the households are both 2 parent and have a female head. 
Add that 15.7% to the 24.4% for the total female headed households and
we get 40.1%.

So in the range of 1997 and 2001 approximately 40% of households in
the US had a female head.  And if you look at the charts in the links
you'll notice the seemingly continuing upward trend for that number. 
So we're probably slightly over 40% now in 2005, but it's very
unlikely that we're past 50% yet.

I don't think there's any high quality new data out there on the
subject, but it is very interesting... perhaps if I ever get a more
research/statistical position as I'd like then I can bring more of
this type of data to life.  But for now I'm stuck in the budgeting
world.

Hey Jack of few..............Good leg work.........thank you so much
for the data.. That is more than I could find.......if you find
anything else...comment me....;)

Oooolala, an open invitation to comment Foxy Loxy... if only I had
something more intelligent to say.

It was a pleasure finding the info.  I love economic type research,
even these elusive ones that might possibly exist somewhere out there
on the net :)

Hello. I recently had to look up information about female headed
households for a research project for class.  According to the 2003 US
Census report 60% of all family households are headed by females.  As
you can see in 2003 we are well past the 50% mark.  You can verify
this information at:

http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/04statab/pop.pdf 

I hope this was helpful.

Melody,

 I looked through all the charts with the census but I couldn't find
anywhere that it makes a distinction between male/female head of
households within a married couple.  Could you tell me the chart that
you're looking at?

try this...
http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa_05/pages/0303hcwc.htm