Prejudice against women ... is many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body.... Astonishingly, even women’s liberation has paid extraordinarily little attention to the older woman and to the fact that her job is limited because she is [older]. They say that women shouldn’t be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television.
ATTRIBUTION:
Elinor Guggenheimer (b. 1912), U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976).
Said on March 1, 1973. Guggenheimer has been co-host of the television news program, Straight Talk.
