: Many films still frame aging as a problem to be solved, often portraying older women as "passive problems" with disabilities or "romantic rejuvenators" seeking to reclaim lost youth.
Recent and upcoming content highlights older women in positions of strength, resilience, and complexity.
Older women (typically defined as ) have historically faced "double discrimination" in Hollywood due to both gender and age.
Prior to 2010, older women in media were almost exclusively defined by their relationship to family or their lack of sexual viability.
For decades, the entertainment industry operated on a rigid, unspoken rule: if you were a woman over 60, your role was limited. You were the nagging mother-in-law, the sweet but senile grandmother, or the "quirky neighbor." You were a plot device, rarely the plot itself.