Gendered Ageism in Australia: Changing Perceptions of Age Discrimination among Older Men and Women

McGann, Michael; Ong, Rachel; Bowman, Dina; Duncan, Alan; Kimberley, Helen; Biggs, Simon

doi:10.1111/1759-3441.12155

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“…Some authors have argued that this discrimination also occurs outside organizations, being coproduced within everyday political and organizational interactions through work practices and individual actions (Halford, Lotherington, Obstfelder, & Kukarenko, 2015;Krekula, Nikander, & Wilińska, 2018). Researchers have pointed out that aging men and young people are more highly valued than aging women (Barrett & Nauman-Sessions, 2016), especially by organizations (McGann et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Nature Of the Feminization Of Agingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminização Do Envelhecimento: Um Fenômeno Multifacetado Muito Além Dos Números

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2021

Rev. adm. empres.

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This essay aims to expand the concept of the feminization of aging by addressing the conditions associated with older women's working relationships. The feminization of aging is generally associated with the fact that there are more women than men in the elderly population, especially in Brazil. The theoretical basis of this study can help to expand our understanding of this phenomenon, which has three axes: the nature of the feminization of aging; the characteristics of those who experience it; and, finally, the needs of aging women and transformation strategies in the work context. These elements show that the phenomenon is too complex and multifaceted to be explained by quantitative approaches, which merely consider the predominance of women in the elderly population in Brazil. Due to gender and age discrimination and other professional challenges, women face difficulties associated with building, maintaining, and progressing in their careers. This expansion of the concept reveals the lack of attention and support for this social group in organizations, suggesting that professionals and managers must raise awareness of and confront this issue to effectively transform the world of work for older women.

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Section: The Nature Of the Feminization Of Agingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminização Do Envelhecimento: Um Fenômeno Multifacetado Muito Além Dos Números

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2021

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“…Align with those findings, McGann et al [41] argued that in manual and traditional working-class occupations such as trade workers, labourers, and machinery operators, older workers perceived ageism as being grounded in negative stereotypes about older bodies. In this kind of job, ageism was associated with the perception that workers with older physique were slower, less fit and more prone to injury.…”

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Text mining of online job advertisements to identify direct discrimination during job hunting process: A case study in Indonesia

2020

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Discrimination in the workplace is illegal, yet discriminatory practices remain a persistent global problem. To identify discriminatory practices in the workplace, job advertisement analysis was used by previous studies. However, most of those studies adopted content analysis by manually coding the text from a limited number of samples since working with a large scale of job advertisements consisting of unstructured text data is very challenging. Encountering those limitations, the present study involves text mining techniques to identify multiple types of direct discrimination on a large scale of online job advertisements by designing a method called Direct Discrimination Detection (DDD). The DDD is constructed using a combination of N-grams and regular expressions (regex) with the exact match principle of a Boolean retrieval model. A total of 8,969 online job advertisements in English and Bahasa Indonesia, published from May 2005 to December 2017 were collected from bursakerja-jateng.com as the data. The results reveal that the practices of direct discrimination still exist during the job-hunting process including gender, marital status, physical appearances, and religion. The most recurrent type of discrimination which occurs in job advertisements is based on age (66.27%), followed by gender (38.76%), and physical appearances (18.42%). Additionally, female job seekers are found as the most vulnerable party to experience direct discrimination during recruitment. The results exhibit female job seekers face complex jeopardy in particular job positions comparing to their male counterparts. Not only excluded because of their gender, but female job seekers also had to fulfil more requirements for getting an opportunity to apply for the jobs such as being single, still at a young age, complying specific physical appearances and particular religious preferences. This study illustrates the power and potential of optimizing computational methods on a large scale of unstructured text data to analyze phenomena in the social field.

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“…It is usually not age alone, but age in interaction with other characteristics, such as gender, ethnici-ty, or socioeconomic status, that makes a difference. Specifically, research shows that aging affects men and women differently (McGann et al, 2016). Women are more likely to experience ageism due to physical changes in their appearance that are associated with loss of attractiveness (Clarke, 2018).…”

Section: The Prevalence Manifestation and Consequences Of Ageismmentioning

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Developing Age‐friendly Cities: Policy Opportunities and Challenges

Phillipson¹,

Buffel²

2020

Journal of Elder Policy

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This journal was initiated in 2019 during a period of relative calm and stability in the US. Our goal as a journal is to showcase cutting-edge scholarship in the field of aging and the social sciences that offers guidelines for practice and policy benefiting and protecting older adults. In a timely paper, expressions and consequences of ageism are addressed by Ayalon. Her essay focuses on ageism toward older adults at the macro-institutional level in policies or politics, at the meso level of interpersonal relations, and at the micro, intrapersonal level. She skillfully uses several contexts to demonstrate how ageism is manifested within policies, healthcare systems, workforces, and our ageist attitudes toward ourselves. Ayalon's article concludes with creative ways to combat such ageism.

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Gendered Ageism in Australia: Changing Perceptions of Age Discrimination among Older Men and Women

Cited by 31 publications

References 30 publications

Feminização Do Envelhecimento: Um Fenômeno Multifacetado Muito Além Dos Números

Feminização Do Envelhecimento: Um Fenômeno Multifacetado Muito Além Dos Números

Text mining of online job advertisements to identify direct discrimination during job hunting process: A case study in Indonesia

Developing Age‐friendly Cities: Policy Opportunities and Challenges

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