And while men file more age discrimination complaints than women, the percentage has dropped from 64.6 percent of the total in fiscal 1992 to 56.8 percent last year, the EEOC says. There are plenty of ashen-haired leading men, Richard Gere and Harrison Ford among them, who project screen images, at least, of virility. Business titans Bill Gates and Donald Trump hardly project images of hard-bodied hunks, and their careers don't seem to have suffered. But now that the hair dye is out of the bottle, the quest for youth in the workplace is here to stay, Selbert says. This trend is definitely going to continue.
Image does count.
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