feminist

• Grandy and Henretta

  Sandwich generation:

  middle aged women are disadvantaged because they have to look after their grandparents, parents and children
• Gannon

  Menopause is seen as a disease which advances patriarchal ideology as it renders women being sick and in need of self reinforcing their status throughout life.

  Menopause means women cannot have children, so they are seen as useless in the eyes of men
• Daly

  Women are made to comply with many global practices such as FGM. Women are expected to conform to physical standards that are not placed on men
• Itzin

  Women face a double standard. Mens status is related to employment, whereas womens status is linked to their reproductive cycle.

  Concept of cosmeticisation - older women feel pressure to fight the signs of aging as their status devalues past childbearing age