The Wall Street Journal reports that in 1970, women accounted for 9.7% of the nation’s doctors and just 4.9% of its lawyers, according to Census data. What a difference a generation makes. Now it’s 32 percent and 33 percent.

Read the story here. It outlines the details of moms and single women making successful careers in the formerly male-dominated careers.

Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa. She is the mom of three, stepmom to three and step-grandmom to one.