This article shares a menopausal woman's experience of defying stereotypes, pushing past her assumed limitations and finding her strength. Introduces the wilderness program Outward Bound.
Assesses some of the economic costs of violence against women in terms of criminal justice costs for policing, court and corrections services, in health costs for doctors, emergency wards, mental health clinics, substance abuse treatments, and in social service costs for welfare, housing, child care, sexual and woman assault centres, not to mention women's loss of work time.
