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Fighting the New Ageism in America

Margaret Morganroth Gullette
University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s intelligent, personal book illuminates biases about aging that probably affect your company, without most of the people who work there being consciously aware of it. Gullette explains the roots of ageism. She provides informative anti-stereotyping statistics; for example, memory problems affect just 20% of those older than 65. Her book also offers suggestions for fighting ageism in the workplace and in society at large, and ideas that will prove useful to those whose work requires planning for demographic changes in the labor pool. Even though her arguments may be densely worded and roam across a wide, not always unified, range, getAbstract recommends Gullette’s impassioned insights to HR managers, hiring managers and executives whose policies and practices must integrate new ideas about aging.

Take-Aways

  • Ageism and its effects reach beyond the major problem of age discrimination on the job.
  • Stereotypes and cultural myths, economies and markets, hiring practices, and media biases combine in society, government and the economy to create a crisis.
  • Some attitudes toward aging present older people as “burdens.”

About the Author

Culture studies expert Margaret Morganroth Gullette, author of Aged by Culture and Declining to Decline, is the resident scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center.

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