comments on the discrimination article

1) The rising of discrimination of both the age and gender, in this case the old women.

2) No, I don't think so. Both old women and young ladies are customers, therefore I believe they should receive the same treatment in order to be fair. Also, I don't think there is any difference between women of different ages - the young ladies too will grow old in the future. Is the local nightspot going to refuse them of the goodies just because they have a few more wrinkles a few years later?

However, I don't find it a must to have laws against such discrimination as this is an opinion among the people. Singapore is a free country, people have the rights to voice out their opinions.

3) Yes. Even though times have changed and women now have more rights, they are still being discriminated because of their physical and mental abilities, that is too weak to do manual chores or even too emotional. And in this society, when people gets older, they are often being 'termed' as weak people too, unable to contribute much to the society as compared to the youngesters. Since the old women are women and also old, they fall into both catergories, facing both the age and gender discrimination.

For old men, although they are also old, they are males. Opinions passed down from generations to generations are not able to be changed in a short time. Since men are known as a stronger and better in doing things in the past, they are not discriminated as badly as the old women.

4) Taking fashion as an example, when old women tends to wear more 'fashionable' or even sexier, others often find it weird or even disgusting due to the old women's skins, which may be flabby or wrinkled etc.

Working old women may even get discriminated by the young women in their workplaces as they may find their working abilities are slow.

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6) Yes. Taking the Cabinet of the government as an example, in the past it was used to be all males, but now there are also women working as important posts. In job advertisements, the companies often have age limits set; older people find it hard to find jobs nowadays, even finding jobs like cleaners.

7a) No comments, It's hard to change their opinions about the gender discrimination as this opinions may have been passed down since in the past.

7b) It's unfair as older people may be even better at certain fields, although they may be slower in learning or doing their tasks.

I don't think so.

8) Console them. Tell them they will be able to find jobs sooner or later.

huimei (:
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