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**Business Book Awards 2024: Diversity, Inclusion & Equality Book of the Year**
**The People's Book Prize 2023/24 Shortlisted Title**
There's one group consistently ignored in most companies' diversity strategies, but which could be your business's secret weapon.
Professional women over 50 are faced with a triple-whammy of discrimination: they are not male, young, or linear in their career paths. As a result, they are leaving corporate life and taking their career into their own hands. And with it, they take their abundant wisdom, energy and ambition.
Drawing on new research by Dr Lucy Ryan that fills a longstanding data gap, this book shows that assumptions about declining midlife motivation and energy just aren't true for women and reveals how you can retain and develop this invaluable talent pool with a better understanding of their challenges and a few simple changes.
Professional women have transformed our world. And women over 50 are deserving of your attention and ready to step up in your business.
Dr Lucy Ryan is a leadership coach, consultant, author and passionate advocate for women's professional development. Her doctoral research project explored the phenomenon of midlife for professional women, a long-standing data gap, and she works with companies internationally to unlock the potential of this key talent pool.
Contents
Preface:
Jane's Story: Collision and coincidence.
Introduction
Embarking on this journey
Part 1 - What's the problem?
Chapter 1
Midlife: the forgotten age
Crisis, what crisis?
The diversity conundrum
Lies, damn lies and statistics
Where have all the (older) women gone?
Diane's Story: The creative collaborator
Chapter 2
Midlife Myths in a man-made world
#1 It's all old news (and solved)
#2They don't want it
#3 We've got one, thanks
#4 It's all downhill from here
#5 They're mad, bad and sad
Sarah's Story: Going to the festival
Chapter 3
Looking back to look forwards
A brief history of female anatomy and 'inferiority'
Proving the gender difference
Medicalising the older woman
Female stereotyping and leadership
Niamh's story: Stepping up or out
Part II - Ageing in the workplace
Chapter 4
Strangers within
Feeding the food chain
The power of language
Acting young
Silver fox meets silver vixen
Joelle's story: the 50-minute make-up workout
Chapter 5
Critical collisions
The midlife 'smash-up'
Losing control and running on empty
Who Cares?
Empty nesting and other syndromes
Nicki's story: To stop, to pause, to change
Chapter 6
Menopause matters
Facts and frictions
Symptoms and the lived experience
HRT and other solutions
Jo's story: Dressing for the Board
Chapter 7
The Ticking Clock
Facing loss and finding purpose
Avoiding the 'nasties'
Existential angst and the big M
Frankie's story: What is it worth?
Chapter 8
Motivation and Midlife
The Motivation Myth
The imprint of old science
Raring and ready to... retire?
Claire's story: Stepping out to step up
Part III - Rewriting the rules: alternative perspectives
Chapter 9
Mirror, mirror: on the other hand
Energy ambition and age
Cyn's story: Bucking the trend
Resilient midlife women
Brenda's story: Braver, stronger, fitter
Post-menopausal zest!
Lori's story: Feeding all parts of my life
Chapter 10
Reconfiguring success: the organisation's perspective
Tackling assumption
Simon's story
The flexible midlife workplace
Steph's story
Creative collaboration across the generations
Geraint's story
Chapter 11
A positive agenda for change
For policy makers
For employers
For women
For men
For you
Additional Reading and resources
References
Acknowledgements
Index.
