{"id":655,"date":"2017-02-01T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masterkey.betterdayskc.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2017-02-01T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T03:24:00","slug":"week-16-low-self-confidence-in-women-over-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.journeyofaday.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Week 16 – Low Self-Confidence in Women Over 50?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt\u2019s prevalent, I tell you,\u201d a girl friend of mine told me last week, \u201cIt\u2019s amazing the number of women out there with low self-esteem. There are so many women I run across in their late 50s or older who believe they have given life all they have to offer and they don\u2019t have any more to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s Daily Mail reported on a study<\/a> commissioned by herbal remedies company, A. Vogel, on self-confidence and self-esteem in older women. In their article, Daily Mail shared that \u201cmore than half of the women in the study felt \u201cleft on the shelf\u201d and were judged negatively simply because of their age.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOnly 15 per cent of thousands of women over 45 declared themselves as having high or very high confidence while nearly half described themselves as not very confident at all,\u201d the article said.<\/p>\n

Eileen Durward, health expert for the company sponsoring the study, concluded the findings, \u201cThe world can feel very geared toward appreciating younger women, leaving those of a certain age to feel neglected or less worthy. These women are not invisible and neither are their concerns,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Huffington Post writer, Michelle Martin, PhD, published her own take on this study<\/a>. She summarized the study with the following statistics:<\/p>\n