Aging Up, Not Out

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

As we grow older, we have to deal with not only sexism at work but ageism too. Still, age has its advantages. We talk with an expert on aging, and then we share personal experiences and answer questions from listeners. Guests: Nancy Morrow-Howell and Maureen Hoch. Our theme music is Matt Hill’s “City In Motion,” provided by Audio Network.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.0	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:25.0	Amy B, I'm really glad we're talking about aging at work on this episode.
0:31.0	Yeah, this has been something I've wanted to take on for a while
0:35.6	with this group, partly because we have talked quite a bit about what it's like to be a
0:41.5	young woman in the workplace.
0:44.9	And I've learned a lot and I have dim memories of what it was like.
0:49.7	But I come at it from the other side and I think that women who are in their 50s and even their 60s
0:58.5	deal with a whole host of challenges that we don't talk about and should.
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah, and it's, it is an experience I feel like I hear very, very little about.
1:12.0	Yeah.
1:13.0	And as someone who's approaching those age groups,
1:15.0	I need to know what it's going to be like.
1:17.0	Well, smack dab in the middle of those decades.
1:20.5	I can tell you that, you know that what they say about women in their 50s kind of
1:27.0	disappearing is true. You know I think that that it is much harder to show up to be taken seriously and to be seen in the
1:39.6	workplace when you're not you know know, right and young and dewy.
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:45.7	All right, we've got a lot to cover.
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