Why More Women Are Getting Diagnosed with ADHD After 30, and What It Means for Your Career was originally published on Mentra.
The cultural moment, the clinical reality, and the career implications of a diagnostic revolution that has been a long time coming. The percentage of women between 23 and 49 who were newly diagnosed with ADHD doubled from 2020 to 2022. The numbers have kept climbing since. This is not a fad, and it is not over-diagnosis. It is the correction of a decades-long pattern in which ADHD in women was systematically missed because the diagnostic criteria were built around the way ADHD presents in…
