The changes, summarized in a Pew Research Center report being released Tuesday, reveal the constant proliferation of working wives over the past 40 years — a period in which American women outpaced men in both education and earnings growth.

A significant proportion of contemporary American husbands are working less, going to school less, living longer and are cherishing the benefits of wives whose education and income exceed their own.

"From an economic perspective, these trends have contributed to a gender role reversal in the gains from marriage", wrote the report's authors, Richard Fry and D'Vera Cohn.

Various new studies cite that women in America are just about to form the majority of the U. S. workforce in few months, dominating universities in ever-increasing numbers, and are also better- educated, and most importantly are handsomely paid.

In about one out of five married couple; the wife earns well more than her husband, which reveals a huge shift in 40 years, when this was the case in just 4 percent of American marriages.

The transformed scenario of 2007 reveals the trend has undergone a radical transformation— 19 percent of wives had husbands with more education, compared with 28 percent whose husbands had less education.