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Post by Ad van der Rest on Aug 2, 2024 9:36:36 GMT
As a few 'over 55's' are starting to rock up to the forum, an interesting question arises.
Of the people who are saying they are experiencing negative impacts on their career based on age, the women seem to be saying it at a younger age than the men.
Is that right? I'm unaware of any stats on this, are you? What's your experince.
Over to you. 😀
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Post by Bernard Gore on Aug 8, 2024 15:01:44 GMT
<Switches to researcher mode> There was a fair amount of research and stats on this back in the 90s and early 00s, which showed a considerable difference wit women women being adversely affected earlier, however at that time women also had earlier age for state and most occupational pensions, which was considered a large, probably dominant factor. The pension ages have since been equalised (for us just turned 3-score it is 67, will be later for the young things!) but there seems a dearth of research on the effect this may have made. I did find this interesting research paper on effects of the pandemic on unemployment by age and gender in USA, which shows a significant increase in unemployment for over 60s, but little difference between men and women. academic.oup.com/workar/article/6/4/207/5904758I can't find any comparative stats for UK. Interestingly the largest impact the paper finds is on young (20-29) women, which is of little comfort other than a little schadenfreude to us at the more mature end of things! |
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Post by derek101 on Aug 19, 2024 15:46:12 GMT
Challenge is no matter if youre male or female you never really know if age is the factor for not getting a job/role. It’s generally just a feeling as it’s never said as a reason for not getting a position or even an interview.
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Post by Ad van der Rest on Aug 21, 2024 6:16:49 GMT
you never really know if age is the factor for not getting a job/role. I can relate to that. Even if it isn't, it's easy to wonder. |
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