Most Americans agree that they workplace and the home are very different from the way they were thirty years ago . The world of work is no longer a man's world. Between 1970 and 1955, the percentage of woman who worked outside the home went from 50 percent to 76 percent. In the year 2,000, of the more than 55 million married couples in the US,10.5 million women were making more money than their husbands, 2 million men were stay-at home dads.