(Bloomberg) -- A record share of young women in the U.S. lived at home last year and the economy had little do with it.

Some 36.4% of women age 18 to 34 lived with their parents or relatives in 2014, the highest since records began in 1940, according to a report released Wednesday by Pew Research Center in Washington. While the share of young men was even greater at 42.8%, it wasn't quite as high as it was some 75 years ago.

"The result is a striking U-shaped curve for young women – and young men – indicating a return to the past, statistically speaking," Richard Fry, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center, wrote in the report. But "the reasons that more women today are living with mom and dad are far different."

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