I have been told in interviews that they want somebody younger. It does not matter that I would be satisfied with the salary for a junior position.
— Karen Lamkin, a lawyer with 25 years of experience who has been unable to find work for three years, commenting to the New York Times about age discrimination in the job-seeking process. According to a recent study on long-term unemployment by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, women who are over 50 years old are still having trouble finding stable work in the recession’s wake.