Resources
The return to work toolkit
Our toolkit gives you all the tips and tricks you need to kickstart your job search.
Whether you are looking for interview questions, ways to improve your CV, ways to prepare for an interview or build your confidence this toolkit can help.
Women and Work Research Report
In early 2025, Midlife360 partnered with Huntingdonshire District Council to explore the barriers women face when accesing the jobs market. Our research found that many women faced huge challenges from anxiety to overwhelm and beyond. To find out more, please click the image to link to the research report .
Women and Mental Health Report
Over the summer, we worked with a team of students from the London School of Economics to explore the mental health of women in Cambridgeshire. This report explores the barriers faced by women and the impact of poor mental health on accessing the workplace. Please click the image to access the full report.
Midlife viewpoints
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Gentle Reflections for the Year Ahead As we move into December and towards the end of another year, I find myself pausing not rushing to make plans or set goals, but simply to breathe and take it all in. There’s something powerful about this space between endings and...
Midlife Stories
Kirsty
I do feel like a bit of a fraud, talking about my midlife 360.
You’d probably agree that imposter syndrome is strong in females who push out professionally anyway, let alone those who make their move in their 40s and 50s? But it isn’t just that for me.
Bren
I have always considered myself to be a strong woman. Having worked since I was 16 years old, then married to a military person, raised two children often many times on my own whilst my husband away for weeks on end.
The children have said many times that I am a strong, inspirational mum and my husband says I am the glue that holds everyone together.
But that all changed last year…
I have always considered myself to be a strong woman. Having worked since I was 16 years old, then married to a military person, raised two children often many times on my own whilst my husband away for weeks on end.
The children have said many times that I am a strong, inspirational mum and my husband says I am the glue that holds everyone together.
But that all changed last year…
Midlife360 News
Identity Before Action: The Missing Key in Midlife Goal Setting for Midlife Women
Why Identity led goals help midlife women create meaningful change, purpose and legacy. Dr Bernice George January 2025 The New Year often arrives like an untouched canvas, inviting us to create a new chapter in the ongoing story of our lives. For midlife women, this...
Further reading
- Who are the millions of Britons not working, and why?
- Why midlife women exit the workplace
- Why women are more burned out than men
- Midlife Crisis in Women: How to Find Your Silver Lining
- 7 Reasons Why Mid Life Women Make Great Employees
- Rand Europe report – Employment and age in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area
Useful Websites
