PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Pension, Hot Flash, Hip Fracture
24 Apr 2012
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Intro: feminist research pays little attn to elderly women, as women live longer need to delve into their lives too. Attitudes toward older women: ageism- bias on age. Treat them as children; don"t talk; don"t research: believe the elders complain all too much, many ageist assumption are false; studied less than racism and sexism. Older women and media: missing from advertisements; don"t portray the real elder women of accomplishments, underrepresented in movies,; 34% older than 40. Even though 54% of pop is in this stage: men more represented. 45% older than 40 ; 51% of pop fall in this age group: age is only seen in magazines for age concealment, not limited to recent yrs but common throughout literature, fairy tales Double standard of aging: negative views ; then on women elderly even more, double standard- wrinkles in man ok, in women no, personality characteristics. Pics and stereotypes test showed how most show the negativity.
