“There has yet to be a blockbuster movie centered on a woman staring out her car windshield and sighing,” as Calhoun would later write. Women have told her reading the book has “removed this layer of shame” they felt and the sense they had “done something wrong,” while everyone else had life figured out. Calhoun describes it as the “Jan Brady of generations,” referring to the middle daughter in“The Brady Bunch” sitcom. Gen-X women typically waited to establish their careers before having children, so they experience the demands of aging parents, dependent children, stressful careers and the hormonal swings all at once. ADThe message was “like a drug that a lot of people took and it plays into an inflated expectation of what we should do as women,” Calhoun said.

Source: Washington Post February 08, 2020 17:02 UTC