Also, a lot of tech & business women over 40 are running into age & gender discrimination, where they actually are in situations where the young male hiring manager argues with them that they CANNOT possibly know about XYZ software programming, or systems design. I’ve had the 18-yr-old IT boy (thinks he’s a genius) defy me on software tools I need everyday, on whether the setup is broken or not. OR we just don’t get callbacks on job submittals, they dry up. Most of the companies keep a database on ages from the last time you applied, so even if you clean your resume to only 10-yrs of experience & submit it, you won’t get a call. I suspect they buy age, etc, data from data-sellers for background checks, so that’s another way to prevent hiring mature workers. I have a Human Resources friend, they do buy data and run age reports to single out older workers for elimination. The companies happily keep paying out on age-descrimination class-action lawsuits.

The ONLY solution I can think of is high-tech females form startups that mask their age-&-genders. So, women would need help learning: how-to be entrepreneurs, get grant money, tax incentives, investment capital, business setup and operations, marketing, & the whole concealing age-&-gender thing. And after all that BS, I think, most women would rather invest in a safer bet like Health Care careers.