“A friend of mine recently asked her teenage niece ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Her niece paused, her response contemplative and measured: “Well, I really wanted to be a surgeon, but I understand it’s very long hours in surgery and if I want to have a family, I’ll need to work less. So I am going to just be a general practitioner.” Mind blown

You see, many millennials never received that memo, and maybe because it was never sent. Instead, this highly educated generation of women, grew up hearing that they could be anything they wanted to be — a well-meaning thought passed on from the feminist movement of the 60s. Millennials strived for everything their mothers didn’t or couldn’t have and are now reaching unprecedented heights. For the first time in American history, women have out-educated men. With those shiny degrees, the world should be their oyster, and to some extent, it is, up until the moment they become mothers.”