Forbes blogger Jenna Goudreau has written a post about miserable Generation X and Y women, Are Today’s Women Drowning In Generational Anxiety? It seems despite having more choices than any of the generations of women who have gone before them, Generation X and Y women are miserable, their happiness documented in a 2009 study The Paradox […]
Now What?
What are life’s most difficult questions? Read on to discover one of mine. Esther Cepeda, a columnist for the Chicago Sun Times, wrote an article recently about Gen Xers coming into their own.< Here is an excerpt: “Because they live in the shadow of both generations, they have never been allowed to have a full […]
Generation X Is Stressed Out
The Daily Beast reports today that Generation X is the most stressed-out generation. The findings come from a 2010 study from the American Psychological Association, Stress Findings in America, which details that women are 8 percent more stressed than men and married women are 11 percent more stressed than single women. Basically, if you’re a […]
Where have all the Gen X professors gone?
I thought I’d read everything there was to read about the career trajectory of Generation X, but this post took me by surprise. It’s about aging professors and a thin pipeline of Gen Xers readied to replace them in colleges across the nation. Essentially, as the writer of the blog, Confessions of a College Dean, puts […]
Generation X in the workplace: What’s our whistle?
The Washington Post has published an article by Joe Frontiera and Dan Leidl, Generation X in the workplace: Stuck in the Middle. (Frontiera and Leidl of Meno Consulting write the regular column, Leadership Playlist.) If you’re a Gen Xer and you have a career, you can’t afford to miss this article, which discusses getting squeezed in […]
Why Ireland’s Generation X stares up at the ceiling at night
An Irish journalist named Ed Power who writes for London’s The Guardian has penned a personal column about the state of Generation X in Ireland where unemployment has reached 14 percent. (It appears on the newspaper’s online version, guardian.co.uk.) Excerpt: For those of us unfortunate enough to be in our 30s and 40s, the outlook is […]
Why are Gen X women shattered, dropping out of the workforce?
A University of Melbourne study about Generation X women losing hope and dropping out of the workforce is getting ink in Australian newspapers. The Daily Telegraph’s headline actually characterized the situation as “shattered hope”. Perthnow (powered by Australia’s Sunday Times) also published the news release. Here is an excerpt: Only 38 per cent of Generation […]