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What Defines Your Generation of Women?

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October 2008
What defines your generation?
What defines your generation of women? For the past few years, our team has been in touch with hundreds of thousands of young women around the world, asking them this very question. They have answered us creatively through the videos, photography, poetry, and stories that grace the pages of this exhibit.

But now, we want to address the question more directly. What *does* define this generation? What sets apart the lives of young women today from those of their mothers and grandmothers? What are our biggest opportunities and our biggest challenges?

There are over a billion women between the ages of twenty and forty living on this planet and no one woman’s experience could possibly represent all of us. But a few common threads stood out in your answers and are backed up by a fair bit of statistical research.

For some, war has been the defining factor of this generation of women. For others, the amazing array of opportunities available to young women today was the defining factor.
You can read about each of the five big trends we’ve identified for our generation by looking at the subthemes for these two months. Most importantly, we invite you to think about and answer this question for yourself: What defines your generation?