L ast week I was talking to a group of twenty-something women lawyers who had just started work in the City of London. One told me she was fed up with being asked how old she was by middle-aged colleagues and clients. The others agreed: they got asked their age all the time and they hated it. They saw it as a way of undermining their authority and putting them in their place.
不久前，我和一群剛剛開始倫敦金融城從業生涯的20多歲的女律師聊過天。其中一人告訴我，她對年屆中年的同事和客戶問她年齡感到不勝其煩。其他人也表示贊同：老是有人問到她們的年齡，她們覺得煩透了。在她們看來，問這種問題不過是為了削弱她們的威信，把她們“打回原形”。
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