While conventional wisdom would love to stereotype women in a box, they actually are hard to tyepcast these days. With varying hues and tones, gone are the days one could imagine what life a woman would be leading. Today they range from domestic to undomestic, from wild to demure, from shy to bold, and the contrasts go on.
Gen X Granny. Those born in the post world war era, the cool grannies of today, are finally relishing a break. Break from raising families, break from raising grandchildren and break from being the anchor for everyone in the extended family on both sides! They had hard lives as girls, wives and sisters but now they can sit back and sip the wine. Some even find their way around social media and like to stay updated of latest trends. Those in better health are undertaking adventure travel and making new friends with whom they share this liberating experience. Most of them today finding time to nurture their passion, nourish their souls and enrich their lives with hobbies which were at the backburner all this while.
Millenial madame. The constantly stretched out in all directions working women form a majority of this chunk. Also known as the sandwich generation who is straddling work, family, kids, siblings, parents and what not, whew! And then there are the ones who choose to write a different narrative of being solo or sans kids, this is a firebrand ‘On my own’ tribe who is fiercly independent, genuinely unapologetic and truly dettached from conventions. They raise cats (or dogs or whatever pets they care for), live by their rules and aren’t unsettling for someone to complete their lives. There is also a slightly nuanced version of this, the ones with a spouse or partner, charting their own path, being carefree or queen-like, they are well read, updated, composed and not grinding to the domestic chores for sure.
Gen Z colleague. All of us surrounded by this species nowadays. Clad in loose baggy denims and crop tees, slinging a bag on a shoulder and music blaring from the oversized headphones. These ladies do not want to be ‘proper’, they want to be frivolous, childlike and highly aware. While education is a basic human right, not every GenZ female wants to come across as academic and pedantic. Some are happy being a dork, some stay a homebody and others a gamer by night.
This is 2026. To all those who don’t get the life choices of a woman, you belong to cave era so here’s wishing you happy time travel, at the earliest!
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