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3 - Older women, work and the impact of discrimination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

By
Diane Grant
Edited by
Malcolm Sargeant
Diane Grant
Affiliation:
Liverpool John Moores University
Malcolm Sargeant
Affiliation:
Middlesex University, London
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Introduction

The aim of this chapter is to shed some light on the impact discrimination has on older women (50 +) and to investigate how their under-representation in the workforce may be partly attributed to a combination of past and present age (and gender) discrimination. It is suggested that a tension exists for older women in attempting to access employment as being at odds with their experiences of gendered ageism, the gendered assumptions of both the family and wider society and their sufferance of gendered disadvantage and discrimination. Each of these aspects has created barriers to women’s participation.

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Age Discrimination and Diversity
Multiple Discrimination from an Age Perspective
 , pp. 41 - 64
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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