{"id":71578,"date":"2025-05-07T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/07\/women-inequality-menopause-perimenopause-ageing-india-career-workplace-employers"},"modified":"2025-05-07T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:00:08","slug":"im-a-woman-of-48-and-as-replaceable-in-the-office-as-the-swivel-chair-at-my-desk-nilanjana-bhowmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71578","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m a woman of 48 \u2013 and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk | Nilanjana Bhowmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In India, as elsewhere, \u2018menopenalisation\u2019 means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider society<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I take another pay cut, I might as well start working pro bono,\u201d I joked with a friend recently, during another brutal round of job hunting in my home-city, Delhi. She, in her early 40s, laughed and said: \u201cI feel the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, I had deja vu on a call with another writer friend in her early 40s. \u201cI\u2019m tired of trying to find a job that pays what I\u2019m worth. No one will hire me unless I drop my expectations to entry level,\u201d she lamented.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/may\/07\/women-inequality-menopause-perimenopause-ageing-india-career-workplace-employers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In India, as elsewhere, \u2018menopenalisation\u2019 means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider society\u201cIf I take another pay cut, I might as well start working pro bono,\u201d I joked with a friend recently, during another brutal round of job &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2460,646,59,3302,62,1203,3301,233,1222,79,61,281,1850,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discrimination-at-work","category-gender","category-global-development","category-guardian-careers","category-india","category-inequality","category-menopause","category-money","category-older-people","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-work-careers","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71579,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71578\/revisions\/71579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}