Working women over seventy shifting the paradigm
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Painting Caption: Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford by Flora Lion, 1918
Synopsis
Work While You Have the Light is a feature documentary by a multi-generational directing team that profiles professional women who are over seventy-years-old and still working.
In American culture, when women age, there is an antiquated expectation that they will eventually stop actively participating in culture and society. A working woman over seventy is rarely seen by society--unlike her male counterparts who are revered with age. This general societal assumption must be updated.
There are 76 million baby-boomers and over half of them are women who are in the process of creating a new model for being an older women. We are in a new age, and the paradigm is shifting. Women are working into their nineties with tenacity and clear minds. Work While You Have the Light exposes the true narrative of aging women by following passionate, curious, fierce and courageous women who are not stopping because of their age.
Work While You Have the Light is for women of all ages to be inspired to not fear age, but rather welcome the opportunity to become fully themselves. The film follows eight women over seventy throughout a year’s time who are working in different capacities throughout The United States--an Artist, Writer, Doctor, Teacher, Television/Radio Producer, Singer, Museum Director and CEO.
“Work while you have the light - you are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”