March is Women’s History Month, and while it’s a time to celebrate the progress women have made, it’s also a time to step back and realize something surprising:

Many of the rights women have today didn’t happen centuries ago.

They happened in our parents’ lifetime.

In this episode of The Midlife Edit, Jen talks about why so many women reach midlife and suddenly feel angry, frustrated, or ready to question everything they were taught growing up.

Because for decades, many women were raised with a cultural rulebook that said:

Be agreeable.
Trust authority.
Don’t rock the boat.
Don’t question doctors.
Don’t speak up too loudly.

But midlife has a way of changing that.

Jen reflects on several moments in women’s history that reveal how recent many fundamental rights actually are — from financial independence to healthcare research — and shares her own personal experience navigating years of medical gaslighting before finally being diagnosed with endometriosis and receiving a hysterectomy that changed her life.

Because sometimes midlife isn’t a crisis.

It’s the moment women start rewriting the rules.

In This Episode

• Why women couldn’t open credit cards or mortgages in their own name until 1974
• Why women were excluded from medical research until the 1990s
• The long history of healthcare gaslighting toward women
• Jen’s personal experience with undiagnosed endometriosis and hysterectomy
• The cultural “rulebook” many women were raised with
• Why midlife often becomes the moment women find their voice

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