STUCK IN THE MIDDLE

Single mom Janet Wang was just four weeks into her new job at New York Life when her father experienced a debilitating stroke. AbbVie’s Laura Adams juggles two children and her mother’s serious medical issues. Wendy Lewis of KPMG, who has a small child, has been the primary caregiver for her father and mother-in-law and now helps her father-in-law.

These three women are part of the “sandwich generation”: women primarily in their 40s who are handling the demands of childcare, eldercare and building a career. And they are disproportionately women of color.

The Pew Center reports that 1 in 8 Americans is raising a child under 18 while caring for a parent over 65—and 75 percent of those caregivers