Age operates as an identity axis whose value depends on field and gender

Evidence

Age is another aspect of identity, one that obviously changes over time. In some careers, such as athletics, modeling, or acting for women, youth is a privileging identity. In other fields, such as law, senior people may be accorded a respect and stature that eludes the young. I keep thinking that one day when I go totally gray, I will be treated with respect. My senior female colleagues assure me that this is definitely not the case for them as women. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1185

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows age as a context-dependent privilege axis interacting with gender, useful for the vault’s identity-intersection definitions.
• XREF: connects to: Age functions differently as a privilege across career fields; Age shifts discriminatory behavior from emotional to cognitive control — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2031; Human societies structure hierarchy by age, gender, and arbitrary-sets (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Age functions differently as a privilege across career fields #expands (0.90)
• Human societies structure hierarchy by age, gender, and arbitrary-sets #corroborates (0.80)
• Age shifts discriminatory behavior from emotional to cognitive control #qualifies (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2031
• Gender identity becomes salient mainly in contexts where gender fits the issue #qualifies (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4402
• Age, sex, and kinship hierarchies predate humans across primates. #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3259
• Identity functions vary across groups and explain differing identification-bias correlations. #complicates (0.70) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 444
• Group-based hierarchies divide into age, gender, and arbitrary-set systems #expands (0.70) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3163
• Youth identity analysis must hold local-global hybridity and micro-sites together #qualifies (0.70)