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feeling at the time , and I didn ’ t want to be a stupid cliché . But who was going to see it ? I only had 200 followers . I just wanted to tell people thank you .
A lot of women were sharing stories in the comments about similar things that happened to them in their workplaces . How did it feel to get that surge of support ? It was extraordinarily humbling . It brought me to my knees . It was heartbreaking reading those . Their stories , these women who had it so much worse than I did but didn ’ t have the platform to be able to say what was happening to them . And it broke my heart that it had been going on for so long and not much had changed . That as women age , they ’ re being pushed out . I read a study in AARP that said women ’ s earning peaks at age thirty-eight . Men ’ s peaks at forty-eight . And that ’ s something I never thought . I always thought , ‘ As I get older , I ’ m going to make more each year , and that will be it until I retire .’ No . That was the wakeup call .
You ’ ve said in the past that women rarely retire from television . Can you expand on that ? That ’ s true . It ’ s a system of being pushed out . And I think it ’ s as much an issue of upper management pushing women out as it is with [ imposter syndrome ]. A study cited in Forbes in March 2023 found that 75 percent of female executives across industries experienced imposter syndrome in their career . Seventy-five percent felt they didn ’ t have the right to be there . So maybe that led to selfsabotage or self-doubt , or led to them not feeling confident enough to stick it out or stick it through or know their worth . And chances are they were taken advantage of . I don ’ t want to blame my departure on the fact that I am an older female , but I would be naïve if I didn ’ t acknowledge that probably played a large part .
Do you feel like you ’ ve been able to make a difference for the women hearing your story ? I do . Part of the reason why that mindset , I think , was allowed to succeed was because a lot of women felt isolated . They felt if they talked to anyone that they were weak , or if you reach out for help you don ’ t know what you ’ re doing . And part of that goes back to the
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