"Prejudice against women is many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women's liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television."
Elinor Guggenheimer
photograph (from left: Betty Friedan, Elinor Guggenheimer, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Gloria Steinem) via
Smashing, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis aspect is extremely neglected, unfortunately.
DeleteThanks for dropping by, luv!
Lovely find!
ReplyDeleteWe surely need more awareness when it comes to the intersection with age.
DeleteMany, many thanks, Kenneth!