The Female Gen X Midlife Crisis During a Global Pandemic
How have the women of Generation X (or Gen X for short) been sleeping during the first year of the pandemic? Not very well, says Ada Calhoun, the author of Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis.
Not that Gen X women (those born between 1965 and 1980) ever really snoozed blissfully, at least not in midlife.
Calhoun lays out her argument in her book (and in an interview with Everyday Health published in February 2020): Middle-class women who are now in their forties and fifties are depressed, overwhelmed, and feel like losers.