Body Image and the Work Place
First Impressions are EVERYTHING! Women this is huge because we tend to have a harder time than men anyways. We have to play the role and dress for success, as they always tell us. Society doesn't necessarily teach us what woman should look like, per-say. If we go by magazines and movies it shows woman looking sexy. There is a time a place for everything. Depending on the job of course a woman should always look professional, should never draw to much attention with low cut dresses or blouses and big earrings. However, if a woman decides to have a low cut top or different earrings a big hair doesn't give a man the right to be disrespectful or even the right for termination. If there isn't strict dress code and you have a problem as the employer talk to the woman. Never go telling "oh did you see what she had on, what was she thinking" that is just as inappropriate as her wardrobe. Although, if the boss doesn't have an issue then nobody else should.
Marcellus article, Moderns or Moms?: Body Typing and Employed Women Between the World Wars, shows us how even in earlier years,1920s, when women started to work, that body image played a huge role in the type of job one held. If you were tall slender and blonde you held an officer job rather those who were “rounder” they called it did traditional work, household work. Magazines didn't know how to portray women because this was a revolution for women being a worker not just a woman, but they didn't know how to. It shows that even media plays a role when it comes to what type of job a woman should have based on how she appears. Unfortunately, woman have always had a difficult time when it comes to equality in the workplace.
Women already have it hard enough in society and to have the way one looks play a factor in the type of job one receives is outrageous. This just shows that body image does play a role in the work place. It is sad that women go through such things when many are just trying to be independent. However, they have to worry about their looks when they are just worried about their career or simply provide for their family.
Marcellus article, Moderns or Moms?: Body Typing and Employed Women Between the World Wars, shows us how even in earlier years,1920s, when women started to work, that body image played a huge role in the type of job one held. If you were tall slender and blonde you held an officer job rather those who were “rounder” they called it did traditional work, household work. Magazines didn't know how to portray women because this was a revolution for women being a worker not just a woman, but they didn't know how to. It shows that even media plays a role when it comes to what type of job a woman should have based on how she appears. Unfortunately, woman have always had a difficult time when it comes to equality in the workplace.
Women already have it hard enough in society and to have the way one looks play a factor in the type of job one receives is outrageous. This just shows that body image does play a role in the work place. It is sad that women go through such things when many are just trying to be independent. However, they have to worry about their looks when they are just worried about their career or simply provide for their family.