According to a new study, acceptance of working mothers in society is at a record high among Americans. The study has been conducted by researchers at San Diego State University. Researchers studied data from approximately 600,000 respondents from two nationally representative surveys.

One survey was of one of US 12th graders and the other was of adults between 1976 and 2013. The study was conducted in order to know about changes of attitudes towards women’s work and family roles in the US since the 1970s.

It was found in the surveys that just 22% of 12th graders in the 2010s thought that a pre-school aged child would suffer if their mother worked, which was down from 34% in the 1990’s and 59% in the 1970s.

SDSU professor and author of “Generation Me” Jean Twenge said that it is opposite to the popular belief that millennials are less supportive, when it comes to working moms. This is because their own mothers worked; they are in fact more supportive.

According to lead researcher Kristin Donnelly, "In recent years, Americans have become much more supportive of men and women holding the same roles and responsibilities in the workplace as well as in child-rearing. These results suggest a convergence onto a common gender role for both genders as equal parts provider and caretaker”.

Donnelly said it is also about flexibly switching between the two at the cost of conventionally gendered conceptions of duty. The study indicates an increasing trend of gender equality and acceptance of choices of others.