Abstract
Counselors are trained to anticipate on-time retirement-linked risks but increasingly are serving women pursuing off-time midlife career reinvention within ageist, sexist, racist, and ableist systems of power. Grounded in the author’s personal narrative, this perspective article highlights the compounded burdens of gendered ageism, biopsychosocial aging, and non-prototypical professional acceleration for midlife women. Built upon Crenshaw’s (1989) framework, chronological intersectionality is introduced as a way for counselors to conceptualize the concurrent biopsychosocial and systemic pressures and marginalization that can occur when age-expected norms collide with career changes for midlife women. Implications for clinical practice are described.
Author ORCID Identifier
Sara W. Bailey - 0000-0002-8665-232X
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8665-232X
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Sara W.
(2026)
"Chronological Intersectionality: Navigating Off-Time Career Reinvention for Women at Midlife and Beyond,"
Adultspan Journal: Vol. 25:
Iss.
2, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33470/2161-0029.1237
Available at:
https://mds.marshall.edu/adsp/vol25/iss2/7
