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a great second half 24 BOWDOIN SUMMER 2011 Photographs by Felice Boucher
After graduating from <strong>Bowdoin</strong>, Jill Shaw Ruddock ’77 moved to New York City and worked in advertising and, later, in publishing for Inc. magazine and The Atlantic Monthly. In 1983, she moved to London to co-head the consulting firm of The Government Research Corporation and later joined the U.S. investment bank Alex Brown & Sons, becoming managing director of their London office in 1994. In 1999, she retired from finance and became involved in the theater world, fundraising and serving on boards, including ten years as a trustee of <strong>Bowdoin</strong>. Now, with the publication of her first book, The Second Half of Your Life, in the United Kingdom, Jill Shaw Ruddock ’77 has been credited with getting people all over London talking about menopause. BOWDOIN: You seem so at ease with all the publicity for The Second Half of Your Life. What do you attribute that to? That confidence. SHAW RUDDOCK: I’m on a mission! All the money I earn (from the book) is going into a foundation to take this book one step further. The whole idea is we start with one and then we cookie-cutter. I hope I can bring it to the states. I hope I sell millions of copies so I can do what I want to do. That’s the truth. For me, it’s always how do I get seen and the way I get seen is by doing publicity. But, you will see, from my publicity, I never talk about my husband, never talk about my kids, and there is very little about me in there. It’s all about the message. This is not my story. This is not a memoir. This is about other women, this is about women empowering themselves so they can live the second half of their life the way they need to live because, believe me, the second half of your life is going to be just as long as the first half of your life. The fact that menopause is 51.4 years; you’ve got a whole lot left to go, and that’s what’s challenging. BOWDOIN: But you talk about your daughters and building an understanding of menopause within that generation – so it is about young women to some extent. SHAW RUDDOCK: I’ve always lived my life thinking I could do whatever I wanted to do. I don’t know if that’s feminism or not (I’ve never burned my bra or anything like that), but for me, what I really believe, is that the women who were born between 1946 and 1963, the baby boomers, we’ve really defined every decade we lived through. I really believe we will take that power and take that strength of numbers and we will redefine old. I don’t want 70 to be the new 50. I don’t want 60 to be the new 40. It’s not interesting to me. I think it’s boring. I want people to start embracing old for what it is. When we redefine what that is, then we can say old means something else. Martha Stewart said she doesn’t buy that; old is old. I said to her, “When you go into an antique store and they show you this beautiful Georgian cabinet, I bet you have this huge smile.” In that case, old makes you smile. And then I said, “Do you have vintage clothing? Do you buy vintage furniture? I love vintage.” And she said, “I love vintage, too.” But now I say, “old lady,” and you get depressed. My whole point is, as we get more and more of these women who are using the gift of menopause to go outside the world to rediscover new passions, to have purpose, to be active, to be strong, that’s the gift we are going to give to our children, to the next generation. If I can help in some way to do that with this book and by setting up a foundation and building these centers, I will have done something good for the world. BOWDOIN: You mentioned the foundation a couple of times, you want to take this to the next step – what’s the next step – what specifically do you want the foundation to do? SHAW RUDDOCK: I want the foundation to build centers. I want gynecologists there; I want someone who can do bio-identical hormones; I want counselors there; I want someone who can help with benefits; I want somebody to give job advice. I want to take the things I give in this book and make them real, so that women—of all socioeconomic backgrounds, which is part of the reason we are doing this through the council (meaning government)— can come and talk and if they need therapy, they will get it. BOWDOIN: Doesn’t that now exist? SHAW RUDDOCK: Only in individual pieces. But, CLASSNEWS@BOWDOIN.EDU 25
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