In this episode, we take a look into what life was like for girls and women in the Midwest during the decades of first the 40s and 50s, then the 60s and 70s, and finally the 80s and 90s. We move along in time through the the stories of three Midwestern women who faced very gender-specific struggles characteristic of Midwestern women's lives in these eras. Though the challenges these women faced evolved with the decades in which they lived, they each had to learn to juggle family and work. In their stories, we will hear the inner strength that carried them through to shape the women, mothers, and, in Deb and Stacy's cases, professionals that they are today.