'Why We Can't Sleep' Documents The Unique Pressures On Gen X Women
Ada Calhoun talked to a lot of Gen X women about the angst they feel as they approach midlife — the pressure to have it all and the feeling that they should have done better for themselves.
The writer Ada Calhoun has talked to a lot of Generation X women about the angst they might be feeling as they hit midlife.
"Being middle-aged in America right now as a middle-class American woman is different than it was for our mothers and grandmothers," she says, "and for a lot of women — not for all of them, but for a lot of them — it is incredibly hard."
She's not talking about poor Calhoun lays out what makes the burdens heavier on Gen X than other generations.
