Some 65 million Americans count themselves as members of Generation X—more than half of them are women. Many of those latchkey kids who were left to fend for themselves after school in the ’80s are now fending for themselves through perimenopause and menopause.
Without much of a road map from their mothers or guidance from their doctors, Gen X women are approaching “the change” with the scrappiness you might expect from girls who were once their own babysitters.
