I CAN DO ANYTHING, SO HOW DO I CHOOSE?

I don't know that this phenomenon is strictly restricted to women. Sure, for women it's definitely different for the present generation than those past, but the challenges faced for the present generation are not restricted to one gender. Most certainly there are inherent challenges caused by too many choices, but I think an aspect of maturity is being able to accept when enough is enough. Easier said than done, of course.

Although, there was options for our parents generations, they were certainly less accepted then compared to today. My friends and I once did a poll and about 9 out of 10 of our mothers were either a nurse or teacher, while the 10th person's mother was a home-maker. It seems that the author was simply trying to state how overall things have changed and that your 20s are a journey to finding yourself. However, I would agree that you don't necessarily need to travel around to experience life changes, different strokes for different people...

Although, there was options for our parents generations, they were certainly less accepted then compared to today. My friends and I once did a poll and about 9 out of 10 of our mothers were either a nurse or teacher, while the 10th person's mother was a home-maker. It seems that the author was simply trying to state how overall things have changed and that your 20s are a journey to finding yourself. However, I would agree that you don't necessarily need to travel around to experience life changes, different strokes for different people...

I think that, while well-written, this article, opinion or not, makes terrible assumptions. Perhaps the writer's own mother didn't feel that she had alternative choices, but they were most evidently there. If her own mother simply allowed herself to feel the so-called pressures to settle down and did not challenge them, this is not a societal phenomenon. I know of plenty of women who are in the generation of which she speaks who did not answer the call to marital "stability" early on in their lives/careers. Further, the opportunities to pick up and move to new cities has been a catalogued American ambition since or before Jack Kerouac's _On The Road_.