Justine Bateman spoke to 47 women about their aging faces and turned their stories into a collection of short narratives. She asks, what if we just rejected the idea that older faces need fixing. What if we ignored all the clanging bells that remind women every day on every platform that we are in some kind of endless battle with aging.

Excruciatingly insecure and endearingly persistent, Cathy. was the Charlie Brown of working women, battling workplace sexism and the cruel lighting of department-store dressing rooms with equal indignation, never quite succeeding.

But, here’s the thing, if I can’t tell my male friends or men with whom I no longer work that their behavior was out of line, who can? And they need to hear it. I’ve learned in talking to more than a few guy recently that some of them really are unaware of their effect on women. And whether it’s for shame or fear or to avoid trouble, some of us haven’t been telling them. This is not to excuse the serial predators and rapists we’ve been reading about. But there are ordinary men who have been rattled by the barrage—they’re just waking up to how little they knew about how women move through the world.

"When you are less than 15% of a dominant majority group, it's harder to voice your own ideas. There's tremendous pressure to assimilate for your own survival rather than risking your place in the group by challenging the majority."