The LINK – News-Bulletin SIE – Ausgabe Mai 2021
Discrimination against older people persists across all our societies.
Does life start at 60? Not for many women. Here‘s why and what you can do to make a difference.
Discrimination against older people persists across all our societies. When we look specifically at older women, the inequality is even more pronounced.
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A female lifetime is more likely to include a lack of security, protection, access to resources, education and health care. These challenges are often exacerbated and added to as the years pass. By the time a woman reaches retirement and old age, this has culminated in a multitude of challenges.
A lifetime of reduced opportunities and a more pronounced physical devaluation than men experience means that senior women are frequently excluded, have fewer choices and receive inferior services. Their access to training, employment and health care is often limited, they are often not seen as a priority and are even regularly overlooked by political reforms.
“Treating people differently because of their advanced age is a form of discrimination that is rarely denounced”.
Bintou Koïta, SIE HQ as Senior Programme Officer
Treating people differently because of their advanced age is a form of discrimination that is rarely denounced because ageism tends to be generalized, entrenched in our society.
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