When mature women are cast, their roles often lean on outdated or harmful tropes rather than nuanced agency.

: Roles often default to "the Shrew," "the Golden Ager," or depictions of senility and physical frailty. Older women are four times more likely to be portrayed as "senile" than older men.

The presence of women on screen declines sharply with age, a trend that does not affect their male counterparts as severely.