I loved the fact you both still gaze at each other even if it is without your glasses 🤓
It really struck me when you said how we think having people comment on how good we look for our age is a great thing, but actually we should reinforce that actually, this is what being over 50 looks like, we don’t subscribe to having to wear a twin set and pearls and wearing our hair in a certain way. Women today can have independence which is empowering, we should be proud to be the age we are, it means we are still here and still contributing and boy can we contribute, power to the people of course but let’s have more power to the women
Ha! Ha! He has no idea what I look like otherwise, Kay 🤣
I think we've been conditioned for so long about how we age especially as women. If I can give any advice to any younger woman it would be independent and earn your own money. There is so much power in that. There's a lot to say really around the perceived feminine ideals and social conditioning isn't there?
Having battled for years in several very male dominated environments your personality changes and becomes harder as this is the only way you know to handle the constant pressure of being a woman surrounded by men, but don’t get me wrong, I have loved that challenge and I am glad that I proved that I could hold my own against them all. Also if I had looked back over the 20 years I have been in the industry, if you had said back then you can still do this in your 50s and not be irrelevant I am not sure I would have agreed, if we all keep moving in that direction, perceptions will have to change.
I loved the fact you both still gaze at each other even if it is without your glasses 🤓
It really struck me when you said how we think having people comment on how good we look for our age is a great thing, but actually we should reinforce that actually, this is what being over 50 looks like, we don’t subscribe to having to wear a twin set and pearls and wearing our hair in a certain way. Women today can have independence which is empowering, we should be proud to be the age we are, it means we are still here and still contributing and boy can we contribute, power to the people of course but let’s have more power to the women
Ha! Ha! He has no idea what I look like otherwise, Kay 🤣
I think we've been conditioned for so long about how we age especially as women. If I can give any advice to any younger woman it would be independent and earn your own money. There is so much power in that. There's a lot to say really around the perceived feminine ideals and social conditioning isn't there?
Having battled for years in several very male dominated environments your personality changes and becomes harder as this is the only way you know to handle the constant pressure of being a woman surrounded by men, but don’t get me wrong, I have loved that challenge and I am glad that I proved that I could hold my own against them all. Also if I had looked back over the 20 years I have been in the industry, if you had said back then you can still do this in your 50s and not be irrelevant I am not sure I would have agreed, if we all keep moving in that direction, perceptions will have to change.
You are what I would call a trailblazer, Kay.
We have to keep talking and sharing these things otherwise nothing ever changes.