Because menopause is still so misunderstood and taboo, women have to develop strategies to hide their unruly body — I’ve been postmenopausal for a long time, so it all seems like a distant memory. Except there’s one perimenopausal incident that’s seared in my memory. I was working the evening copy desk at a local paper, and I’d walked to the mall nearby to grab dinner. All of a sudden…

There’s only one reason why the reality TV star might ‘eat poop’ if it made her look younger — internalized ageism and sexism — Kim Kardashian just announced a new line of cosmetics, SKKN by Kim, so her fans and followers can have skin just like hers. It will only take a regimen of nine products —totaling $630. As the 41-year-old reality TV star, who has tweaked just about every part of her face…

We’re constantly being warned not to have a style that ages us — Every nine weeks or so, I spend about an hour and a half with Inka, my Gen X hairstylist. We talk about a lot of things — politics, TV shows, men, sex, parenting, life. Just about everything other than hair. “What are we doing today?” …

Many men finally focus on mutual pleasure, not just their own — Here’s how the narrative goes — if you’re a woman of menopausal age or older, you’re going to lose your libido. When society keeps pushing negative narratives about aging as a woman, of course that could lead a woman — even a woman who has enjoyed sex throughout her life…

How does that impact how young men think of aging women? — I don’t know much about video games and I’ve never played one, although my sons have. I do know, however, that although more women are playing video games than ever before, including middle-aged women —quickly catching up to men —most of the women featured in video games reflect society’s ageist…

The process of growing older is a lived learning experience — You might think that someone who studies aging would be well prepared for their own aging. Surprisingly, gerontologists — who educate and help others understand the physical, mental, emotional and social issues related to aging — aren’t always, according to a new study. In fact, the 46 women working in…

Women need to start sharing their money stories openly — When I was 19, I dropped out of college to follow my boyfriend to Colorado, where he was going to attend college. I didn’t know that I was going to end up supporting him with my minimum-wage jobs. But, I didn’t care; we were two young idealistic hippies who spent…

If she sees a problem and he doesn’t, that’s a problem — In the 1970s, sociologist Jessie Bernard observed that how a marriage was experienced depended a lot on whether you were the wife or the husband — only heterosexual marriages were allowed at the time — and thus couples had a “his” or “her” marriage. It wasn’t so great for the…

It never was about men, sports cars and younger babes, and it isn’t purely negative either. — Mention “midlife crisis” and it’s bound to bring up visuals. A balding man in a red sports car with a much younger woman in the passenger seat? Maybe. But according to Susanne Schmidt’s 2020 book Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché, the real midlife crisis was —…