The period between 30 to 70 years can be defined as midlife. During this period, men and women alike face varied challenges in terms of personal, professional and economical, which makes the researchers categorised this timeline as midlife crisis. Men and women are affected to a different degree to midlife crisis, with women reporting higher level of stress as they must balance work and home. However, men suffer from this phenomenon of gender expansion, where they feel they will become more like their father and their wives more their mothers. Socioeconomic condition also play a key role, as in the people belonging to lower educational category tend to rate their stresses at a higher level as compared to people belonging to higher educational category. In a broad category, midlife crisis manifests itself in different ways for different people. Moreover, people have adopted different mechanism to deal with it, like taking up sports of their liking, travelling, or developing a hobby, etc.. Solution The period between 30 to 70 years can be defined as midlife. During this period, men and women alike face varied challenges in terms of personal, professional and economical, which makes the researchers categorised this timeline as midlife crisis. Men and women are affected to a different degree to midlife crisis, with women reporting higher level of stress as they must balance work and home. However, men suffer from this phenomenon of gender expansion, where they feel they will become more like their father and their wives more their mothers. Socioeconomic condition also play a key role, as in the people belonging to lower educational category tend to rate their stresses at a higher level as compared to people belonging to higher educational category. In a broad category, midlife crisis manifests itself in different ways for different people. Moreover, people have adopted different mechanism to deal with it, like taking up sports of their liking, travelling, or developing a hobby, etc...