Episode 146: Ageism, or Prejudice Against Our Future Selves
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:35.9 | But for now, just relax. |
| 0:37.8 | I'm actually relax. Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Miltight. |
| 0:55.7 | This time, the second of two shows about aging in the workplace, perceptions of women as workers |
| 1:02.0 | often change as they get older. They're not seen as attractive as they were before. |
| 1:08.4 | And I mean that both physically as well as in terms of the skills that they have, |
| 1:13.1 | or they're seen as behind the times. You know, if we have a wrinkle, that's a defeat. If we have |
| 1:18.6 | grey hair, that's a defeat. And increasingly, I think women in the workplace are feeling that |
| 1:24.6 | they need to hide these signs of ageing just to maintain a sense that they are |
| 1:30.6 | still relevant. But having lived a little can pay off career-wise. In many ways, all the life experience |
| 1:38.3 | I had beforehand helps to inform my practice now and makes my job more enjoyable and makes it easier to understand my clients. |
| 1:50.0 | Three perspectives on aging and work, plus ideas for combating ageism. |
| 1:54.8 | Coming up on the broad experience. I don't want this show to be depressing, but at the same time I do, as usual, |
| 2:10.8 | want it to be real. And the reality is, there seems to be more bias against older women in the |
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