Weekly Newsletter: Women Returning to Work + Age-Proofing

Women Returning to the Workforce in Record Numbers
Recovering losses from the financial collapse of 2007 are among the reasons many women are returning to the workforce after decades of being out of the market. After some adjustment and tap dancing around age and gender bias, some are thriving in their new roles. LINK

Avoiding the Age Reveal and Other Techniques to Squeak By
At our San Francisco event last week there was a moment of reckoning when the conversation moved to the topic of age-hiding. It seems it’s a pretty common practice. The conversation continued on our Slack Channel. LINK

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Recommended:

Wisdom @ Work: The Making of a Modern Elder

Chip Conley’s highly anticipated book chronicling his tenure at airbnb as a mentor to the young CEO. Conley quickly discovered that while he’d been hired as a teacher and mentor, he was also in many ways a student and intern.

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