Ageism and the middle years

Samantha Nolan-Smith
3 min readMay 15, 2019

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I was recently involved in a discussion where lots of middle aged women — women over 40 — really resented being referred to as being ‘midlife’.

It really got me thinking because in Australia, the medium age of death for a non-Aboriginal woman is 83 years old. (For Aboriginal women it’s currently 73.)

So factually, once you hit 40, you’re middle aged.

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Samantha Nolan-Smith

Feminist writer, visibility coach. I support women to be more visible by releasing the social conditioning that keeps us hidden. www.theschoolofvisibility.com