'Even when older women hold a positive sense of self, many do so while experiencing a kind of cognitive dissonance between their internal confidence and society’s evaluation of their aging appearance.' Here's how we can start to change that.
Several high-profile celebrity women have also made a point to engage the public on this issue and, as such, have built a foundation for a national conversation about women and aging. Stars such as Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeo, Paulina Porizkova, and Justine Bateman have been vocal in interviews, movie award speeches, and in a best-selling book, about the damaging ways in which older women are portrayed in the media and the diminished opportunities available to them in TV and film.
It is important to keep in mind that each age cohort brings a different set of formative experiences with them into their own older adulthood, resulting in a different sociocultural aging process for each group. For example, today’s younger generations will grow older with years of exposure to social media in their archive of lived experiences. Research has already shown that high amounts of
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