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.

I don't think parents of young children quality as "middle aged" they are younger women with different issues.

Anonymous wrote:Your thoughts?

Republicans ie women's health care, jobs, life as we knew it.

Anonymous wrote:Your thoughts?

Don't know, but the worst issue in 1024 (and really of most of human history) was the risk of dying from hunger, disease, or childbirth, not to mention the roughly 1 in 3 chance of your child dying as a baby if you did survive their birth. So in that sense, things are better for most people today.

Being dismissed and not taken seriously by medical professionals.

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The fact that still, even in 2024, middle age is still culturally a kind of planned obsolescence for women. We still struggle to have the kind of cultural power that would give us a meaningful role in the world after we are past childbearing years.

I'm not saying individual women don't have power or meaning once they hit middle age -- obviously they do. Both at high levels (Angela Merkel) and low levels (my neighbor who runs a consulting business and is well-respected and successful). But the women who do this still have to fight against a strong cultural perception that women no longer matter once they are no longer the future mother to someone's kids (and yes I phrased it that way on purpose).

These old ideas about gender roles die hard.

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Having zero payoff for ambition

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.

Raising kids and having parents that are going off the deep end.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a meaningless question. You will get as many different answers as the number of women who answer.

I find it interesting.

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This is a meaningless question. You will get as many different answers as the number of women who answer.

Your thoughts?