Women over 50 have learned to roll with the punches. We’ve suffered our share of slights as society attempts to marginalize us, make us feel irrelevant, and acts like our age alone is something that diminishes out worth. We hear the condescension couched in terms such as “sweetie,” “dear,” and “young lady,” and we recognize [...]
Last year I wrote a post asking readers to consider the following: Have you ever fibbed about your age? Is the weight on your driver’s license off by more than a few pounds? How do you respond to the most dreaded question a friend can ever ask: “Does this dress make me look fat?” If [...]
Just because you’re a woman over 50 doesn’t mean you have it all figured out. In many cases, it’s to the contrary. Suzanne Braun Levine writes of the “Fertile Void,” that time in a woman’s life between first and second adulthood when every part of her reality seems to be in flux. Her mindset is [...]
Boomer women have long been known for our chutzpah. So rather than fading into the margins of society once we hit fifty, we chose to become anything but invisible. Perhaps it was due to our vast numbers, our revolutionary spirit, or maybe it was menopause and the energy generated by a communal hot flash of [...]
There is a good news/bad news scenario to the job market of 2012. The bad news is that the job security we knew in our youth is virtually nonexistent. Downsizings, layoffs and reorganizations are daily occurrences that can impact us at any time. But, despite the ongoing assaults to our sense of equilibrium, there is [...]
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