November 30, 2019
In 2017, I wrote about lawmakers in Britain debating making
it illegal to require women to wear heels to work, and marveled at how this
sort of discrimination can still exist.
Not to be outdone in the Sexual Discrimination in the
Workplace Department, Japanese companies not only require women to wear high
heels to work, but some companies have forbidden women to wear eyeglasses at
work. Various reasons were given for the ban, but according to a sociology
professor at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, it’s about women having a
feminine appearance; and that apparently doesn’t mesh with wearing glasses,
which the bosses perceive as making women look “too cold” or “too intelligent”.
A petition and social media discussions are ongoing right
now. I hope they stop this nonsense in its tracks.
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