Blaze Your Own Trail

In this imaginary journey, you’ll see possible outcomes of several pivotal decisions.

Imagine you are beginning your life journey as an adult. In the following scenarios, you are a white, heterosexual, college-educated female – advantages that mean your experience will differ from those without this head start. You will make choices about your career, a family and where you will live, based on your values and priorities.

Along the way, you will experience some effects of these decisions and gain deeper understanding of how, often, life deals you a different hand than the one you wanted or expected. Additionally, you will have a chance to see different perspectives and appreciate other women’s triumphs and travails. 

Approximately one-third of college graduates launch careers immediately; two-thirds explore other options for five to ten years before embarking on a career.

You’ve just graduated from a respectable college with a dual major in math and communications, and the possibilities seem endless. Your best female friend Sam decides to travel for a while before settling down and invites you along. However, the idea...