I worked my way through college doing summers and full-time temp positions with a state agency. The top management of the division I was in was dominated by middle-aged women.
Several of us noticed an interesting dynamic from them:
If you were young and male, you could practically get away with murder.
If you were young and female (and especially if you were attractive), your career there would be short and viciously unpleasant—which I actually saw happen a couple of times.
If you are middle-aged and male you run the risk of being the ex-husband who divorced them or at best the bore they go home to. Neither works out too well for you career.
You have an ex-manager long-gone of SCETV’s engineering department pegged pefectly.
The yo-yo in question now that you bring up was the same way.