Sentences with phrase «ageist stereotypes»

Accordingly, anti-age discrimination in employment law aims at promoting various purposes to remedy these wrongs, including preventing opportunistic behaviour by employers, who are tempted to dismiss older workers when their labour costs are higher than their marginal productivity; promoting displaced older workers who experience major challenges to reemployment; protecting against ageist stereotypes and ageism; and alleviating social isolation, oppression and economic deprivation among older workers.

It found that ageist stereotypes in children and adolescents generally decrease around ages 10 to 12, and that young people who say they have very good contact with their grandparents have the lowest levels of ageism.

«The most important factor associated with ageist stereotypes was poor quality of contact with grandparents,» explains Allison Flamion, a PhD student in psychology at the University of Liege, who led the research team.

Ageist stereotypes fluctuated with the ages of the youths studied, with 7 - to 9 - year - olds expressing the most prejudice and 10 - to 12 - year - olds expressing the least, the study found.

Not exact matches

But Turteltaub pulls out quite a few ageist and hoary images from his grab - bag of stereotypes.