Digital Commons @ Georgia Law Scholarly Works Faculty Scholarship 1-1-2020 Aging On Air: Sex, Age, and Television News Rebecca H. White Dean & J. Alton Hosch Professor Emerita University of Georgia School of Law,
[email protected] Repository Citation Rebecca H. White, Aging On Air: Sex, Age, and Television News , 50 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1323 (2020), Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/1378 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarly Works by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Please share how you have benefited from this access For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Aging on Air: Sex, Age and Television News Rebecca Hanner White* "In this 21st century, we should be long past the double-standardthat allows men to age with gravitas while women are saddled with an expiration date. " I. INTRODUCTION ................................................ 1324 II. THE TALE OF CHRISTINE CRAFT, OR "TOO OLD, Too UGLY AND NOT DEFERENTIAL TO MEN. .............................. ....... 1324 III. THE MORE THINGS CHANGE... "ALL YouNEED TODoIs TURN ON THE LOCAL NEWS. IT OFTENLOOKS LIKE TAKE YOUR DAUGHTER TO WORK DAY "...................... ............... 1327 IV. SEX PLUS AGE OR AGE PLUS SEX? "IN OCCUPATIONS WHERE APPEARANCE IS BELIEVED TO BE IMPORTANT, THE TREATMENT OF OLDER WOMEN IS MUCH WORSE THAN THAT OF OLDER MEN OR YOUNGER WOMEN. " ............................................ 1329 A. Title VII and Sex Plus Age Claims...........................1331 B. The ADEA and Age Plus Sex Claims ............ ..... 1337 V. APPEARANCE BASED EXCEPTIONS TO DISPARATE TREATMENT THEORY; OR, "(S)HE'S GOTA GREAT FA CE FOR RADIO ....