Age Discrimination
Earlier on in the month I attended a screening hosted by UN
Women, KPMG Network of Women (KNOW) and
the International Women’s Forum (IWF) from the award winning Jennifer Siebel
Newsom’s film Miss Representation which highlighted the dire issues of
inequality of women in USA. Key points that were alarming were girls and women
with eating disorders, the limited amount of women that are protagonists in
films, and few women directors or writers. What stood out for me were the
remarks on women and ageing, exemplifying that woman at a certain age are
marginalized and fade into the background, because of age discrimination.