A new study reveals that women are just as ambitious in their career goals as their male counterparts. The accounting industry has long been known as a man’s industry, but that has been changing over the last few years and we at BCG&Co. are proud that more that 50 percent of our staff is comprised of women! A few highlights of the study:

• Women in dual-earner couples are contributing more to family income. In 1997 women contributed an average of 39% of annual family income. That figure rose to 44% in 2008. In 2008, 26% of women living in dual-earner couples had annual earnings at least 10 percentage points higher than that of spouses/partners, up from 15% in 1997.

• Among Millennials (under 29 years old), women are just as likely as men to want jobs with greater responsibility. In 1992, 80% of men and 72% of women under the age of 29 wanted jobs with greater responsibility. Today the figure is 67% of men and 66% of women. The figure reached its low point for both genders in 1997.

• Today, there is no difference between young women with and without children in their desire to move to jobs with more responsibility. Whereas 60% of women under 29 with children and 78% of women without children wanted jobs with more responsibility in 1992, today the percentages are 69% (with children) and 66% (without children).

View full study: http://familiesandwork.org/site/newsroom/releases/timeschanging-release.html