OPINION: 'In the not by a long shot final analysis, what women wear or don’t wear to work is probably going to remain a thorny subject until we enter a later 'Star Trek' world of full coverage, gender neutral yet…
The fracas surrounding a female Missouri state legislator’s decision to legislate a more conservative, supposedly more professional dress code for female legislators , made me think of this quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin that I’ve heard through the years whenever someone goes nuts about what women, as well as men, wear or don’t wear to work instead of how they do their work: “It is the eye of other people that ruins us.
People are also reading… I remember so many of my colleagues and myself looking like ever so slightly feminized corporate drone men in dark, longish skirted suits, with flesh-toned pantyhose, fairly low-heeled plain leather pumps, scratchily starched white or faintly hued blouse-shirts, and, perhaps most memorably, floppy silk bow ties that often came in subdued foulard patterns.
Of course, what women wear to non-hospital, non-factory jobs has been a subject of tremendous scrutiny ever since organizations thought smaller female fingers would do wonders with the typewriters that ruled offices until about the 1980s. For years, clothing that bared arms and included short hemlines and snug fits was considered not only acceptable but nearly required in many work environments.
In the not by a long shot final analysis, what women wear or don’t wear to work is probably going to remain a thorny subject until we enter a later “Star Trek” world of full coverage, gender neutral yet colorful uniforms. For now, when we focus so much on things like clothes and not enough on opportunity, qualifications, and job performance, we truly will let the eye of others ruin us.
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