Midlife is the time when many people hit their stride in their career... if by people we mean men.
For women in the workplace, the years between 40 and 60 are a minefield.
While men are clambering up the ladders, their female colleagues are caught up in the serpentine twists of balancing career and family.
This is not new, but women’s progress at work has fallen for the first time in a decade, in a worrying development highlighted by The Economist.
The reversal, the magazine says, is at every level, from part-time work to women’s share of senior executive positions.
