sorry to hear you both suspect the same as me! We can never prove it but it must happen.
I bet no one in a recruitment department will
ever admit they don't like us in our early 30s!!
Yesterday I enquired about a job in my local village shop - the first thing the owner asked me (he doesn't know me) was 'do you have kids?'
- totally illegal to ask - so decided I didn't want to work for them anyway! But guess he is only voicing what most of them worry about. I think it's because you get 12 months maternity leave now.