What is the worst issue confronting middle aged women in 2024

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Anonymous wrote:It’s the same today as it has always been:

1. Equal pay that equips a woman to support herself and her family.

2. Affordable housing.

3. Affordable, high quality healthcare.

If all women had those 3 things, everything would be peachy keen.

I would add: support for babies and their parents — both medical support for pregnancy and childbirth (and preventing pregnancy), but also postpartum care, child care, etc.

[Anonymous]

Watching our daughters have less reproductive freedom than we did. It’s going to happen or is happening already and we’re the ones who should do something about it!

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans banning No Fault Divorce in 2024.

Republicans Project 2025 and behind the scences plans for all women.

What? Citation, please.

googled for you
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/no-fault-divorce-ban-republicans-win-presidency-2024-christian-mike-johnson-donald-trump/

So if a woman can’t divorce, she’ll be stoned to death in the public square for cheating?! The GOP anti-woman stance is truly terrifying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reproductive choice and bodily autonomy.

Literally nothing else matters.

Middle age women are beyond childbearing years. So why does it matter?

Because we have daughters and nieces that we care deeply about, and don't want anyone having a say over their bodies other than themselves. Abortion is healthcare.

That is their issue. Not yours.

Why does everyone keep stating this? Abortion is 💯 a societal issue. Our economy and crime are negatively affected when women don’t have access to abortions. You don’t think lower minimum wages or child poverty affects you and your community? Please educate yourself.

[Anonymous]

Republicans and the stupid/ dangerous people who vote for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not being able to purchase the bottom half of the shirt.

In all seriousness, I think it's sandwich generation stuff... raising kids in a time where very hands-on parenting is the norm, often while working a full-time job, while juggling aging parents.

Also, marital division of labor issues in two working-parent families. Many women my age (40) were raised that they could do anything and that has turned into doing everything.

40 is middle age? On what planet? You are born in 1984.

[Anonymous]

Is equal pay always a good thing for married women with kids?

I say that as back in 1980s my old firm literally paid married men with kids double the pay of women.

They all had stay at home wives who could easily afford to stay home, take vacations, be there for kids.

That same company today has equal pay the men make 1/2 as much so both husband and wife have to work to equal the same household salary from just husband working 40 years earlier. Add in child care and fact men still don’t chip in married women have way more work and less income after childcare costs than 40 years earlier

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Getting divorced and realizing just how hard the dating world can be as an older woman, looking ahead at working until the day you die, realizing you might have listened to some bad advice from your single girlfriends about how great it is "out there", and quietly feeling incredibly scared about it all but acting like everything is totally awesome on the surface when the hard truth is that no one is coming along on the horizon to save you, the job market is getting more shaky as you get older, and you don't have nearly enough saved for retirement.

I would think that would be the biggest fear?

Is this you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Getting divorced and realizing just how hard the dating world can be as an older woman, looking ahead at working until the day you die, realizing you might have listened to some bad advice from your single girlfriends about how great it is "out there", and quietly feeling incredibly scared about it all but acting like everything is totally awesome on the surface when the hard truth is that no one is coming along on the horizon to save you, the job market is getting more shaky as you get older, and you don't have nearly enough saved for retirement.

I would think that would be the biggest fear?

Yeah, it's not great out there if you are over 40. I'd even say late 30s even.

And the biggest increase in divorce rates have been “gray divorces”. 50 and older.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Project 2925
Loss of jobs
No fault divorce gone
Men having more power
Losing credit cards and property rights

Handmaid’s Tale is coming true.

[Anonymous]

menopause and being called Karens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Republicans and the stupid/ dangerous people who vote for them.

Good answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:menopause and being called Karens

+1 to being called Karen if you have the audacity to question poor service / somebody joy riding the bicycle you need to ride home after work.

[Anonymous]

Definitely being held down in their future career opportunities by The Patriarchy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not being able to purchase the bottom half of the shirt.

In all seriousness, I think it's sandwich generation stuff... raising kids in a time where very hands-on parenting is the norm, often while working a full-time job, while juggling aging parents.

Also, marital division of labor issues in two working-parent families. Many women my age (40) were raised that they could do anything and that has turned into doing everything.

40 is middle age? On what planet? You are born in 1984.

40 is middle aged on planet Earth. Plenty of people die at 80.