The Gender Revolution From The Post Homemakers get plenty of support.
Some couples go into business together to cut down on time apart.
A 1995 poll found women favor their dual roles . It's because women try 100 percent, and it makes men look bad. John Knight, a mortgage loan officer in Williamsburg, Mich., has an adjusted attitude about the workplace of the late 1990s. Today, if a group of guys are talking in a circle and a woman walks up, the circle opens. Whether it's in Kifer's gritty factory or Knight's sleek office building, interaction between the sexes has vastly improved in the blink of a generation, according to a nationwide survey by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.