What's got my attention this week #22
Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend
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• As Madonna goes on tour and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie goes live, it’s impossible not to draw comparisons. These are two of my favourite pieces: Bearing witness with my daughter at the church of Taylor Swift and Madonna is always one step ahead.
• What is walkaway wife syndrome and why is it so prevalent in midlife?
• I’ve written about British TV presenter Naga Munchetty and how her experience of trying and failing to get her gynaecological problems diagnosed chimed with my own experience of trying to get help for adenomyosis. This week she testified in front of the Women & Equalities Committee.
• Why we’re so bad at getting better.
• I’ve noticed a lot of women my age are stopping drinking (me included), here are two pieces that resonated: Priya Joi on how she used to love booze, but it stopped loving her and “it’s not you wine, it’s me”, by Fiona Gibson.
• Economist Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-winning research shows why some gender gaps are shrinking. And some aren’t.
• In praise of Autumn’s rotting beauty.