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
International Women’s Day
Every year, International Women’s Day invites us to celebrate progress, reflect on inequality, and ask key questions. Each year when I attend the Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce IWD event, we talk about how can we create meaningful long-term change especially in an economy that feels stretched and uncertain. How can we all truly give to gain?
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 by Dr Bernice George
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 “canvas” is not a blank page but a richly textured manuscript; layers of experience woven into an evolving script. While we cannot rewrite past chapters, we have the power to co-author the next scenes, actively shaping our journey by the choices we make.
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
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