Article Why we need more older female role models at work
Article Why we need more older female role models at work
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Quote:When women in their 50s or 60s are made visible, it is often on the condition that they look 10 or 20 years younger. As a result, women in their 60s are effectively invisible—present only if their age is erased. This narrows ambition, encourages self-censorship, and makes later-life leadership or reinvention seem abnormal rather than expected. It quietly redistributes power away from aging women by making long careers harder to imagine, claim, and inhabit.
Real. It sucks to feel like aging normally is somehow not allowed if you want to stay viable in your industry - and I'm not even talking about entertainment, fashion, or other celebrity/public figure worlds.
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Quote:When women in their 50s or 60s are made visible, it is often on the condition that they look 10 or 20 years younger. As a result, women in their 60s are effectively invisible—present only if their age is erased. This narrows ambition, encourages self-censorship, and makes later-life leadership or reinvention seem abnormal rather than expected. It quietly redistributes power away from aging women by making long careers harder to imagine, claim, and inhabit.
Real. It sucks to feel like aging normally is somehow not allowed if you want to stay viable in your industry - and I'm not even talking about entertainment, fashion, or other celebrity/public figure worlds.
