The complaints of well-educated, middle- and upper middle-class women are easy to dismiss as temporary, or not really a crisis. However, nearly 60 percent of Generation Xers describe themselves as stressed out. Their happiness is declining both absolutely and relative to men, and more than one in five women are on antidepressants.

An awful lot of middle-aged women are furious and overwhelmed. What we don’t talk about enough, writes Ada Calhoun, is how the deck is stacked against them feeling any other way.

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