Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.
Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.