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Essay On Ageism

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Ageism involves being discriminated against based their age this, applies to all age groups. Ageism occurs mostly in the workplace, for example, younger adults may have difficulties in locating a job and often receive lower pay, due to their lack of experience, while older, have difficulties receiving promotions and finding new work. The AAPR has reported that, 1 in 5 working adults in this country are older than the age of 55 and of those 65% have experience some sort of age related discrimination and one half of them believed that, started around the age of 50 (Cherry, 2016).
I feel that the first step for employers to eliminate ageism is to understand what exactly is be aware of any discrimination laws. Also, what might help is by removing
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