I am 45 and the second oldest woman at my work

[TodClarty]

What about you?

I'm on the receiving end of ageism for the first time. I read about women just leaving the workplace as they get older cos they arent valued and dont fit.

(My place is an office based work where age shouldn't matter)

Get a job on social housing. O left there when I was 33 to be a SAHP and was the youngest in the office. One was a year older, one was mod 40s, the other two had children my age. All women. Male manager was 60s. CEO at one point was woman in her 50s. Lots of senior positions held by women over 45

@2021DNA

For the first time in ages I’m not experiencing ageism. We have a twenty five year old supervisor who is probably too intimidated by us to make any ageist comments

Can’t believe you are proud of bullying someone in the workplace. Hope your supervisor goes to HR so they can sack you and gets someone competent in that can do your job without bragging about intimidating people.

Don’t be ridiculous.

The 25yr old will naturally be intimidated by the older staff being far more competent and experienced than they are, obviously! 😂

I only suffered ageism at work when I was younger. New starter that was better at her job than the ones that had been there forever.

As I'm getting older, that's still my experience.

@2021DNA

For the first time in ages I’m not experiencing ageism. We have a twenty five year old supervisor who is probably too intimidated by us to make any ageist comments

Can’t believe you are proud of bullying someone in the workplace. Hope your supervisor goes to HR so they can sack you and gets someone competent in that can do your job without bragging about intimidating people.

Don’t be daft. Guessing you have not experienced ageism. He knows not to fuck about with us. He has form for being racist, sexist, disablist . He is challenged on all of these but steers clear of ageism.

I am mid 40’s and work with women in their 40’s and 50’s. I have never worked anywhere where I have been made to feel so stupid. They are so derogatory, and treat me as if I an an office junior. I had more respect and consideration from people in a previous job who were in their late 20’s and early 30’s. Fortunately I am leaving soon!

I'm 43, and work in a very much female dominated profession. My boss and three of the other managers are female and around the same age. I would say that I'm one of the slightly older staff but not by much. We have a few staff near retirement age and some in their 20's. No one younger though as you need a degree and a post grad to do the job.

I'm 52 and the oldest person at my work by 8 years. Most people are aged 25-45. They all socialise together and do lots of stuff - I am never invited. To be honest I am really lonely as a result, but there's nothing I can do about it so I just accept it.

Don’t be daft. Guessing you have not experienced ageism.

Wrong again!

I am also the second oldest woman. I am 50.

The oldest is the boss so I think I'm good!
We all respect each other and I don't think anyone thinks of anyone's age - we just do our jobs.

I am surrounded by women, 20s up to mid 60s. You won't be surprised to hear it's a primary school.
The oldest teachers are mid 50s. The TAs range from 20s-60s. There is one male teacher.

That’s a shame. Don’t tolerate it.

I am the oldest female at 40 but I am also the youngest.

@Finfintytint

I’m in team of people where we are all fifties and sixties. It’s great. For the first time in ages I’m not experiencing ageism. We have a twenty five year old supervisor who is probably too intimidated by us to make any ageist comments

Ummmm do you realise what you've said here?

@Kitfish

I'm 52 and the oldest person at my work by 8 years. Most people are aged 25-45. They all socialise together and do lots of stuff - I am never invited. To be honest I am really lonely as a result, but there's nothing I can do about it so I just accept it.

That’s really hard

I think it can be tough when age skews younger

Think it’s been explained, lol.

I work in a female dominated sector. I’m 44. My boss is late 40s, director late 50s (both women). My team is all female - ages 25, 26, 27, 32, 42, 45, 59, 62. No ageism, we all get on really well. It’s brilliant .

@Hfjshdhs

I always worry about what happens to women over the age of 45ish in workplaces. I’ve worked for several different large employers and the only older women were those in super super senior positions.

I don't get this, where do they go??

Not in an office but I'm 41 and in the middle-some women older some younger. 3/4 of the workforce are women as are the owners of the business.

In my current role there are 2 people older than me (I'm 35). One is the same level as me (is mid 50s, has been here 20 years and is happy at this level), the other other is my boss (mid 40s).

There are several women at the various senior levels here and age has never been a factor at all in the years I've worked here.

My sector reminds me of Lynette S out of Desperate Housewives who said after 35 they take you round the back and get rid of you

She was in marketing and I’m creative sector

I always remembered it was so long ago

I'm in a similar position in a large secondary school department. It isn't my manager who doesn't value me, but I might as well not exist as far as the younger SLT are concerned. It's very demoralising.

I work for a company that has just celebrated its 30th birthday.

They targeted their recruitment towards working mums when they opened and created family friendly policies. Which is why we have an awesome work place nursery.

There’s a lot of original staff who still work there. Our last managers training course was about the effects of menopause in the workplace.

Is that ageist? I’m not sure, but preparing your younger management for the stage many of their staff are going though seemed like a good idea to me.

I'm 56 and there are at least 1//3 of my colleagues who are ages with or older than myself. It is also fairly equally divided between males and females.

But I work in a profession that values academic experience.

It’s interesting to hear which sectors are better for this, if people feel like saying

Just turned 49 and I'm the oldest woman although there are a couple within a year of me.
There are 2 men older than me.

I've not experienced any ageism at all at work.

We have a reasonably high turnover of younger staff members as we take on trainees (from A-levels or graduates) to undertake professional qualifications, and generally only keep a proportion.
The more senior staff members are more longer term.