Even women with high ambitions are more likely than their predecessors to plan to scale back at work at certain times.

According to The New York Times The youngest generation of women in the work force — the millennials, age 18 to early 30s — is defining career success differently and less linearly than previous generations of women. A variety of survey data

shows that educated, working young women are more likely than those before them to expect their career and family priorities to shift over time.