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

I'm Ashley Milthight. This time, the second of two shows on generational conflict at work.

It's been a really uncomfortable decade for me and my friends, I think,

but it has cultivated a certain amount of unwillingness to be the good girl.

She thinks the older women in her industry are underappreciated in spite of everything they do.

And we hear from a 40-something on what influenced her career choices.

You know, my parents were divorced, and I remember looking at the mothers and the women around

me and thinking they are beholden to somebody else for their safety and lifestyle.

Coming up.

Yeah. So I know I said we're going up. So I know I said we'd be concentrating more on Gen X women in this show and we will get to them. But I want to start off with Nora Matthews. She's the 30-year-old from the last show. She knows her generation has this reputation of being over-entitled special snowflakes. She works in media and publishing in

New York, and she graduated into a recession. She didn't get right on her chosen career path after

college. It took some years of doing jobs she was overqualified for.

She hasn't had the experience in her chosen field she thought she'd have by this age.

The older women she works with have had a more straightforward path. They're excelling. But that said,

do you ever feel envious of the women in the generation above you?

No. I actually feel like especially Gen X women are in a kind of tight spot between boomers and millennials and that they, if anything, have a lot of pressure on them to perform.

And she says at her office they do, brilliantly,

but she's not sure they get the recognition they deserve.

I think there is, while there are definite benefits

to having started up the career ladder in time to be doing financially

better than me and my friends are,

I still see a certain amount of pressure and almost that good girl expectation that can be really crushing,

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