Why is age discrimination a challenge for teachers?
This is actually a valuable development, for the older teachers themselves, for students, for education in this state, and for the economy. Anti older teacher prejudice and myths remain alive however, and lead to unfair treatment of both younger and older teachers.
When does age discrimination happen to older people?
Age discrimination occurs when people are treated differently and worse, in a range of defined areas and services, simply because of their age. It happens often, it usually but not always happens to older people, and it is happening more, because we have more older people making up our ageing society.
Which is worse age discrimination or sexism?
It is as pernicious and damaging as sexism or racism or disability discrimination. Age prejudice has serious negative impacts on older people themselves, on our workforce and our national economy, on civil society and the quality of our community interactions.
Is there a solution to age discrimination in the workplace?
While it is essential to have in place legal restraints on age discrimination in the workplace, the solution is not all about laws. The more fundamental challenge is to change deeply held and heavily entrenched attitudes within the labour market. As the Australian Law Reform Commission noted:
Why is discrimination illegal in the age of algorithms?
Our central claim here is that when algorithms are involved, proving discrimination will be easier—or at least it should be, and can be made to be. The law forbids discrimination by algorithm, and that prohibition can be implemented by regulating the process through which algorithms are designed.
When does age discrimination come into play in academia?
When you begin your scholarly career in your 20s or 30s, and pursue an active research and publishing trajectory with tenure, age discrimination, in many important ways, does not come into play for a very long time. In this, academia is different from other areas of the economy.
Why are tenured professors protected from age discrimination?
An aging professor who maintains a lively and dynamic research trajectory is likely to enjoy a relatively stable reputation in his or her field for many decades. Because of this, the tenured professor is to some degree protected from the virulent age discrimination that affects workers in other industries.
Why is ageism a problem in the Academy?
Age matters if the work itself is perceived as being old fashioned or out of date, but advancing age is not in and of itself the cause of old fashioned or out of date work. An aging professor who maintains a lively and dynamic research trajectory is likely to enjoy a relatively stable reputation in his or her field for many decades.