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Sheng nu: A derogatory Chinese slang term loosely translating to "leftover women", used to describe unmarried older women.(see "Spinster" below) Silver fox: A sexually-attractive or promiscuous older person. (see "cougar" above) Spinster: A woman who, in her own culture, is single beyond the age at which most people get married.
The cross-party committee is considering whether discrimination and ageist stereotyping is preventing older people from participating fully in society and the case being made for an Older People ...
Workplace age discrimination is all-too real. The aging workforce in the U.S. has grown considerably. Despite aging workers’ desire to continue working, however, research done by FGB shows that ...
Getty By Susannah Snider While employed in the office of a state senator, Alice Fisher sometimes felt out of place. "I was working with people who were younger than my children," says Fisher, who ...
Age stereotypes have been shown to operate unconsciously. For instance, a 1990 study by Purdue and Gurtman demonstrated that the associations made by their college-aged participants between certain negative traits and old age had an "automatic" component, such that, when their participants were subliminally primed (i.e., presented with stimuli at speeds sufficient for perception, but not ...
During this period, the main issues of the Gray Panthers included forced retirement, ageist stereotypes, cuts to Medicare and Social Security, and world peace.. There had been a mandatory forced retirement age at 65, based on the perception that older persons could not be productive members of a workplace after that age.
A 43-year-old woman is sick of being babied by her older coworker at a law firm. She went on Reddit’s “Am I the A*******” forum after confronting the coworker about the issue. The ...
That all began to change in the West in the 1700s. The rise of wage labor freed young people from their families and gave them more autonomy to decide whom to marry. The Enlightenment put freedom of choice into vogue. The word “spinster” emerged, a pathetic figure compared to blissful women in love.