Young women value high-paying careers more than young men, study finds

The Chicago Tribune reports:

A new study by the Pew Research Center in Washington reports that women 18 to 34 are more concerned with finding a high-paying career than men of the same age, 66 percent compared with 59 percent. That compares with 56 percent of women and 58 percent of men in 1997.

The increased ambition speaks in part to the fact that more women are expecting to remain single for a longer time or never marry, said Kim Parker, associate director of Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends project.

One-third of women 18 to 34 are married, compared with 73 percent in this age range in 1960, the study found. The median age now for first marriage for women is 27, compared with 20 in 1960.