The Breaking Point: How The Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women - Hardcover

Shellenbarger, Sue

 
9780805077117: The Breaking Point: How The Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women

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The creator of the Wall Street Journal's "Work & Family" column draws on original research data and the experiences of more than fifty women to document how today's women are experiencing crises in midlife, citing such factors as greater financial independence, the demands of balancing parenthood and careers, and redefined sex roles. 75,000 first printing.

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Sue Shellenbarger is the creator and writer of the Wall Street Journal's Work & Family column. The former chief of the Journal's Chicago news bureau, Shellenbarger started the column in 1991 to provide the nation's first regular coverage of the growing conflict between work and family and its implications for the workplace and society.

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From The Breaking Point:
Like most people, I had never taken the notion of midlife crisis seriously. I thought of it as a fleeting, laughable period of adolescent regression that induces middle-aged men to buy red sports cars and take trophy wives. Typing with my arm in a sling after my ATV accident, I decided to make fun of myself in one of my regular Work & Family columns in The Wall Street Journal. Ridiculing one of the stupidest accidents of my life, I wrote, "The midlife crisis is a cliché-until you have one."

I quickly learned I was not alone. The column drew one of the biggest reader responses I had received in its twelve-year history. While some readers of both sexes were startled by the notion that a female could even have a midlife crisis, a far larger number of women readers experienced a shock of self-recognition. I did a little research and the statistics floored me: More than fifteen million women have had or will have a midlife crisis, as opposed to less than fourteen million men.

Seventy-three percent of women in the midlife years claim that "life is too complicated", up from 55 percent fifteen years ago. Extramarital affairs among women have increased to a level nearly equal to men's, peaking among women in their forties. The divorce rate among women in their forties increased during the 1990s, rocking a decades-old pattern of declining divorce rates at midlife. And contrary to expert conjecture, less than 1 percent of women attributed midlife crisis to menopause.

Clearly, I was on to something. Something big.

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ISBN 10:  0805080317 ISBN 13:  9780805080315
Verlag: Holt, 2005
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