Gender roles, work and family seem to be getting more and more enmeshed as the time passes. A recent study involving 3,500 workers was released today.

It revealed that it is for the first time "that younger men and women feel the same about job advancement and the first time that there is no statistically significant difference between men and women in their views of appropriate gender roles," said lead author Ellen Galinsky, president and co-founder of Families and Work Institute.

The study revealed that the share contributed by women in the income of dual-income couples had increased to 44% in 2008. On the other hand the men had started to spend more time with the children and had begun to feel increased pressure of balancing work and family.

About 60% of modern day men and women disagree with conservative thought process according to which men should earn the money and women should take care of the children.

In 1992, 80 percent of men and 72 percent of women below age 29 sought jobs with greater responsibility. However, according to the study, today the figure stands at 67 percent of men and 66 percent of women.