Why Some Women Are Lying About Their Age on Their Resumes

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Victoria here, Girlboss’ executive editor. 👋

I recently started rewatching Younger (now that it’s finally on Netflix) and thought there’s no way this could happen in real life—a 40-year-old divorced mom successfully passing as 26 just to land a job in publishing? Welp. Turns out a lot of women IRL are doing their own version of this, quietly shaving years off their resumes to survive in today’s job market. More on that below.

Other stuff the Girlboss team is yapping about on Slack:

• Woah! Nearly half a million women dropped out of the workforce last year.

• “I procrastinated building a personal website for years—then I tried this platform.”*

• Eloise Bridgerton is a whole mood.

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