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by ELISE
When your feeling sad and low
We will take you where you got to go
Smiling and dancing
Everything is free
All you need is positivity
Colours of the world, Spice up your life
Every boy and every girl, Spice up your life
People of the world, Spice up your life

Ask any Millennial Girl where those lyrics are from and she’ll tell you, it’s the Spice Girls. When they popped into our lives as impressionable adolescents we had no idea that the idea of “girl power” would fuel our generation. I personally caught the “girl power” bug quite early and have never let go.
This blog was inspired from my experiences as a Millennial but most importantly as a female Millennial. Generational differences are seen most clearly amongst the “minority” populations or as Millennials would say, the “oppressed” populations because of the rights and privileges those populations gain with each new generation. America is a different place for girls today than it once was, everything from sports, to college, to technology is more girl-friendly. Millennial Girls benefited the most from the self-esteem movement, the idea of “girl power” is no small thing. Millennial Girls know that history is not on their side but looking around at their overachieving friends it is hard to picture a world where women were not expected to go to college then graduate school then spend some time in giving back before settling into a lucrative career. But the bottom line is that despite female majorities amongst college students, women still only make up 16% of the women in Congress and are still underrepresented in business and academia as well.
Success amongst our female peers is normal but amongst our elders successful females are less normal, our parents assume that for a woman to obtain success in her careers she must have sacrificed something at home. As a Millennial Girl I look to my future and all I see is my career. I am a Lifetime Girl Scout and Girl Scouts has taught me to always be looking for my next project, my next challenge. In this moment, I’m worried about what I will do with my life because I have so much desire to leave my mark and I’m constantly searching for how I can make the world a better place. Millennial Girls around me share the same questions and drive, I greatly hope we will maintain this momentum. Will the Millennial Girls be able to maintain our majority and our drive as we age? Or we just part of the next generation of women destined to reach a point in our lives where we no longer believe in “girl power”. I believe the Millennial Girls are the generation that will truly shatter the glass ceiling. Shattering the glass ceiling is not just about getting women into positions of power, it is about changing the culture of America to bring true gender equality. Millennial Girls are already bringing a different culture to America, it’s the “girl power” culture.
Millennial Girls is designed to be a blog about the culture of Millennial Girls, we will discuss social media, television, science, politics, trends, film, books, and more. We will provide commentary on the way our culture is changing America and we hope it’s for the better.