num_pages: 267
description: When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable too?Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs HR trends credit card debt averages and divorce data. At every turn she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers and the Millennials Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age problems that were being largely overlooked.Speaking with women across America about their experiences as the generation raised to have it all Calhoun found that most were exhausted terrified about money under-employed and overwhelmed. Instead of being heard they were told instead to lean in take me-time or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order.In Why We Cant Sleep Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen Xs predicament and offers solutions for how to pull oneself out of the abyssand keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring empowering and essential reading for all middle-aged women and anyone who hopes to understand them.
language: English
title: Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
publisher: Grove Press