Ernst and Young has made the news recently with a seminar that told their female employees to conform to specific standards of work ethic, professional attire, and even fitness and wellbeing . Cara Balen discusses the way in which this adds to harmful gender stereotypes within the workplace, and examines how such rhetoric feeds into a larger narrative about gender essentialism.
Although efforts to tackle racism and sexism are commendable, a new ism is on the rise and calls for attention: ageism.