If you are a Indra Nooyi or Ginni Rometti or Meg Whitman to name some of the world’s best known CEOs, their age is neither a conversation starter nor a deal breaker. Their incredible minds, inspirational addresses and perhaps their immaculate power dressing are what matter. In India while we actively and happily participate in global conversations about cryto-currencies, artificial intelligence #metoo campaign, womens’ rights, women breaking the glass ceiling etc, we distinctly lack enthusiasm in leading conversations about older women in the workplace. We boast of our demographic dividend, revere our ageing politicians, worship a pantheon of goddesses while slyly indulging in female foeticide. Our cauldron of contradictions and hypocrisy is apparently bottomless. And this extends to the women in the workplace narrative as well. We blithely borrow from patter in popular magazines to breathlessly state to some hapless woman who is clearly trying not to be an ‘age’ victim ...