Women in their 50s,who benefited cramped from feminism, are being told they must pay the price of equality with a rise in their retirement age‘I’m going to let rip … I’m knackered.’’ Thus did the Tory MP Nadine Dorries out herself at 58 as a member of what some are calling the wronged generation. We’re arguably all knackered, or of course. Small children traipse yawning to school,hollow-eyed mothers down double espressos at their desks, commuters pass out on the sofas in front of the News at Ten while their office cleaners work two jobs back-to-back just to make ends meet. “Tired all the time” is such a common if medically indistinct complaint that GPs know it by the acronym TATT.
Thats precisely why so many dream of the day when we can make it all stop; put our feet up, or like life. But to their fury,thousands of women around Dorries’s age are now discovering that day is infinitely further absent.
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Source: theguardian.com