Has Hollywood finally realised women don't vanish at 40?

Three women over 60 won a Golden Globe this week. Let's hope that's not a one-off

Find someone who celebrates you the way Jamie Lee Curtis celebrates Michelle Yeoh

Three years ago, when I was writing the book The Shift, I distinctly remember researching the chapter about visibility and representation of women in midlife and beyond. Mainly because it was so bloody depressing. It wasn't that I was looking for luminaries and role models to put on a pedestal (as Dawn O'Porter said on an episode of the podcast last autumn, "why do men get to be rockstars and women have to be role models?"), far from it, they just had to be there, where people could see them! I scoured the internet for older visible women, I counted the female faces over 40ish on television night after night, this was early on in lockdown so I couldn't scour the newsstands. Eventually, because there’s only so long you can stare at Fiona Bruce’s face (no offence,…