Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time on the show, we look at how a woman's age and stage of life affects her experiences at work.

Some employers have set notions about exactly what you should be doing at which stage of your career, including right after you've had a baby.

There was the assumption that I was no

longer on the advancement track, that I would not be applying for more aggressive roles in the near

future, so that perhaps I needed to take things a little bit easier. And sometimes being an older

woman in the office can present challenges as well as rewards.

Younger people tend to discount your opinions.

They may think, well, she's not going to be around here all that many more years anyway.

You know, let's not worry about bringing her into a particular discussion.

And we have some inspiration for anyone who thinks it's too late to try a new line of work,

coming up on the Broad Experience.

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So do you include your graduation dates on your LinkedIn profile?

I'd never thought about doing otherwise, but a few months ago I read a column that made me

rethink the whole topic of professional women in age. Leia Eichler is the editor of Feminomics,

a site for professional women, and she recently launched Rally, a mobile

collaboration platform for women. She wrote a column saying she'd always been proud of her

age to accomplishment ratio and didn't hide anything on LinkedIn, but noticed plenty of other

women did. Given the youth culture that dominates, at least in North America, it's not surprising

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