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Women Are Told To Wear High Heels And More Makeup By Employers, To Look ‘More Appealing’ At Work

This news talks about that it's still existing the sexism in work, either because women are told to put on more makeup or wear high heels.

Most of the women feels that her employers doesn't treat women and men in the same way. Also, when her employers said something like that they feel like they're gonna lose her job because of her clothes, so they don't feel good with that. 

There was a study by employment law experts, who asked 2000 after the number of people who have been told to change their apparence increased. 50% of men said that his collegues comment more about how women dress than men. Josephine Van Lierop, Slater and Gordon's lawyer said that there was a lot of employers who think that women have to dress sexier and more provocatively, she also said that this kind of sexism is usual in some workplaces like financial services or something like that.

There is a dress code that allows the employer to say his employees how they have to dress, but it musn't be discriminatory.

To sum up, more women think that they are underestimated by his employers than men.

Personal opinion

I think that nowadays this sexism shouldn't exist or at least would have to be almost gone. It's true that depending on the workplace, the employees, have to meet minimum requirements, but women don't have to dress sexier to attract the clients, they just have to be decent, like men.

I really hope that as time goes by, this sexist mentality end.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/survey-reveals-sexist-dress-codes-women-face-at-work_uk_57e24d5fe4b004d4d8612d2a?utm_hp_ref=uk