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Employment discrimination; Ageism; Attitude (Psychology); Prejudices; Social perception

The article reports on age discrimination at work in the U.S. Sixty-four percent of Americans between forty-five and sixty have been found to have witnessed age discrimination at work. Author Margaret Morganroth Gullette says that ageism emerges from the perception that old people are irrelevant. Industrialization also increasingly demanded younger worker.