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Introduction
Paula Goldman, Director of Imagining Ourselves
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The timing for the initiation of my career could not have been worse. The economy was awful, and September 11 had just happened.
One Sunday, my friend Denise invited me over for breakfast. Somehow we began recounting the stories of young women we knew all around the world and the incredible things they were up to. Both Denise and I had worked and traveled in numerous countries, and each of us knew dozens of women in their twenties and thirties who were making courageous moves in their lives and contributing vital leadership to their communities.
It dawned on us that there was something quite remarkable that connected all of these stories — a positive, empowered spirit that enabled women of our generation to engage fully with the world and to pursue goals and lifestyles that may not have been possible several decades ago.
Like all of life’s best adventures, if I had known what I was getting into, I never would have started. Luckily, I had no clue. I thought the book would take about a year from start to finish. Nearly five years and thousands of conversations later, the project has grown way beyond a book—and includes a landmark online exhibit, a series of global events, a worldwide PR campaign, and dozens of notable participants.
If you are a woman between the ages of twenty and forty living anywhere on the globe today, you are part of the most educated, most well-traveled, most professionally empowered, most international generation of women ever to have existed on this planet.
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