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[–]zephyranthes 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I feel more like I was punished for being born female.

This! I've been working at my current company for two years now, and men still won't greet me. Some even recoil in horror when they greet each other in a crowd and then remember there's (gasp!) a female intruder in their midst, or when they see my t-shirt and short hair from the back and run up and extend their hand. Ewww, gross!

(They don't greet the women from another department either. Unlike me, all three of them are upper management and style themselves in a way that would be socially unacceptable for a man: skirts, heels, makeup, extravagant hair, etc).

Women are still not considered professional without makeup in most settings.

...but not this. I've never been pressured to change my appearance either because I'm female or toward "femininity" in any way (one boss banned jeans for everyone and I ignored it, but I was the only one non-lawyer so no one cared).