Welcome to Shutterstoop, a video series in which Shutterstock\u2019s senior director of content marketing, Jennifer Braunschweiger (shown center), has a casual conversation with a colleague from her stoop in Brooklyn, New York.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n In this installment, she sits down with contributor Didi Gluck (left) to discuss the right and wrong way to show \u201cmature female friendships.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Stay tuned for the next episode, when she chats with executive producer Tanya Jones (right).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n What does friendship among women over forty look like? That\u2019s the question Shutterstock contributor Didi Gluck set out to answer in her\u00a0recent essay<\/a>\u00a0about the visual representation of \u201cmature female friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat I found was there\u2019s a lot of imagery out there about what people\u00a0think<\/em>\u00a0women over forty do, versus what women over forty actually do\u2014which is really not that different from what anybody else does,\u201d Gluck tells Shutterstock\u2019s Jennifer Braunschweiger. \u201cIt\u2019s like, suddenly, when you\u2019re looking for imagery of female friendships over forty, everybody<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n [is]<\/p>\n\n either doing something like water aerobics, which sort of projects\u00a0old\u00a0<\/em>. . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n [or they’re]<\/p>\n\n holding mugs of tea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n To learn more about Gluck\u2019s findings\u2014and get her tips on how to do right by women in their prime\u2014watch her Shutterstoop appearance below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\nFinding More Accurate Portrayals of Mature Women<\/h2>\n