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When exactly is your ‘last f***able day’?
The answer to that seems to be some time in your late 30s, if you’re a woman and […]
The Twiggy effect? Older women as models in fashion and beauty campaigns
Over the past 12 months there’s been an increase in the number of female celebrities aged 50 and older appearing […]
Middle-aged women, nakedness and sex: Making the invisible visible
Two articles published 24 hours apart in the lifestyle sections of two very different UK news websites covered similar […]
Sexism, ageism and all the other isms: Prof Jenny Saul on implicit bias and stereotype threat
In a previous post I wrote about implicit bias: a term that is used to describe the process when stereotypes […]
Unconscious bias: What we all should know about implicit ageism and sexism
In this post I take a look at how our behaviour can be influenced in ways that we are not […]
Ageism and sexism in the media: Still looking for the older female TV presenters
David Dimbleby was quoted in the Guardian earlier this week saying that “television must re-examine its ageist and sexist […]
Old female bodies? No thanks
“There are fewer roles for older women because cinema likes young flesh and we shouldn’t moan about that… Sex […]
Ageism, sexism and the media
Earlier this week I attended the Ageism and Sexism in the Media event, hosted by the New Dynamics of […]
Dr Sharron Hinchliff 