Leslie M.Faerstein, EdD, LCSW

07/07/2024

That Leslie Morrison Faerstein II is NOT ME!!!
Please block it, report it and do not friend me on it.

08/07/2018

Please take a moment to vote for amazing.community's proposal for SXSW and help end bias for women over 50 in the workplace. Thank you so much! Leslie

Women 50+ is the fastest growing age-gender segment of the US labor force. When reentering the workforce they face personal challenges such as skills and confidence gaps, sparse business networks, caregiving responsibilities as well as societal challenges: hiring managers, inflexible workplace polic...

06/22/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/style/instagram-grandmas.html

The subversive cadre of women over 60 prove that “old” is not what it used to be.

05/14/2018

Ashton Applewhite's under 7 Minute Talk on "How Will Social Structures Affect The New Longevity?" Her talk is in English.

““El envejecimiento es una forma de medir el progreso humano, el problema es la discriminación que produce” Conferencia de Ashton Applewhite sobre https://t.co/taKW8DXxWr”

05/14/2018

Thank you, David Leonhardt for your op-ed piece on including women in your reporting!

The same goes for almost every other journalist in the country. And it’s entirely possible for us to do better.

04/30/2018

Please join us Wednesday evening, May 2nd when I'll be giving a talk on Aging and Body Image:

Wed, May 2, 2018, 6:00 PM: What is dressing for an "age"? Who said women need to be taught how to "look their age"? From the moment we are born, society dictates to women how we should look and act. B