Excerpt from my book You’re Always 39: Surviving Late Career Job Loss & Thriving. Out December 2026 The Rosie the Riveter poster is a symbol of American triumph: a sleeve rolled up, a bicep flexed, a resolute gaze. But the reality for the women who actually built the bombers was grit, sweat, and air-powered gunsContinueContinue reading “From Rosie to Reinvention: U.S. Women at Work”
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Long Overdue: An Apology
A Starting Over at 60 Blog Thank you to The Lancet for this landmark research. This past week, the renowned medical journal, The Lancet, issued an apology. Specifically, the journal admitted a bias and ignorance toward women’s medical issues. In this case, they admitted they had gotten a diagnosis wrong. They had misnamed and mischaracterizedContinueContinue reading “Long Overdue: An Apology”