The heading of this post is the title of an article by Minette Marrin, a columnist on The Sunday Times. She points out that no matter how vigorously people like Emma Soames of Saga claim that women of 50+ are having a fantastically improved time, there is no escaping sexist ageism. Unless women look young, they will not be treated as young, and there is growing pressure to 'have work done' to keep that youthful appearance. Minette says that the idea of growing old gracefully is going out of fashion and that this is not something to celebrate.
I think most 50+ women manage to avoid looking quite so 'thin-lipped,slack-eyed,and grey-haired' as the image Minette conjures up, without surgery and major expenditure, but agree that there is unfair pressure. It begins with "to colour or not to colour?"
Heather Hosking
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