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- According to the NYT Style section, “piercings are back,” albeit in a more subtle way. Are there any non-earlobe piercings that would be acceptable in your office?
- The Budget Babe checks out the lookbook for the Elie Tahari for Kohl's DesigNation collection, and Lucky shares the Roland Mouret For Banana Republic collection.
- Lifehacker gives you a handy flow chart to help you clean out your closet. How do YOU decide what to keep, fix, toss, or donate? (Here's how you can shop your closet.)
- No good deed goes unpunished? The WSJ reports on a new study that found that when women advocate for other women at work (and when minorities do the same for others in their group), they receive less positive performance reviews.
- The Daily Dot interviews Lyndsay Kirkham, who, while out for lunch, tweeted the sexist remarks she overheard from the people at the table next to her, whom she identified as IBM execs. (Since tweeting the conversation, Kirkham has been called a “bitch” and “racist” — for mentioning that the execs were white — and has received rape threats.)
- Speaking of gender bias in the tech industry… Wired reports on the discrimination faced by tech entrepreneurs and other women in the field — and why it's a taboo topic. On a more positive note, Fast Company interviewed eight female entrepreneurs to learn how they found success.
- The Guardian examines a new study that reveals the serious gender imbalance among U.S. environmental groups. A key quote: “The dismal findings amplify long-standing complaints from women and minorities that the groups which have taken it on themselves to lead transformational change are resistant to change themselves, and are dominated by white males. ” (via the Broadsheet)
- Eater shares the best 10 quotes from a recent panel discussion in NYC on women's leadership in the culinary field.
- Also in the Guardian, Jessica Valenti criticizes the new trend of companies using ads for shampoo, soap, etc., to tell women how they should be acting/thinking/feeling. The real message to women isn't really “empower yourselves”; it instead appears to be “ur doin it wrong.”
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S3K
I’m very disappointed to see the blog take the clickbait feminism approach to pageview generation. There’s more than enough legitimate lifestyle, career, and fashion news to cover without using screen space to promote professional malcontents who stir up gender hostility for profit and personal attention. Until this post, the blog was very good at finding such news and not being yet another platform for propagating dubious ideologies.
The tropes of college feminism, such as repeating the phrase “white males” when it is used as a thinly veiled epithet or giving coverage to people who believe in public shaming of private conversations for ideological reasons, have no place on a career advice blog. They have no place on a career blog because such things will make someone unemployable much more quickly and far more completely than any of the fashion mistakes this site has called out over the years.
Don’t turn into yet another blog that farms outrage for pageviews.
MK
Which article specifically are you commenting on?
AnonJ
This is a site for working women. I would guess a large majority of the readers, especially those of us in tech fields, have experienced some form of sexism veiled or blatent. Pretending it doesn’t exist doesn’t make it go away.
skin woes
I’m young (34), and I have good genetics–my mother, at 67 still has pretty good skin, for having been a smoker (now quit) for most of her life. I battle cyclic acne, but it seems to be subsiding now that I am adjusting to my iud.
However, I’m finding that the thing that is bothering me most now, after 50+ pounds of weight loss is that it looks like I have a lot more wrinkles. I don’t mind crow’s feet, they just tell how much I smile. But, I do mind the vertical worry lines between my brows.
Has anyone had any tried and true experience with wrinkle creams? I don’t have a lot of money to shell out, so in all seriousness, $30 is about as much as I can afford for something that I hope would last me a few months or more. I’m contemplating botox, because I know that would certainly help, but I also live in a small market, so there may not be that many (good or not) choices near me.
Wildkitten
Cap Hill Style has written about this – you should search her site for recommendations.
Wildkitten
Cap Hill Style has written about this – you should search her s1te for recommendations.
Lynne
I have a nosering (and have for a long time) – it’s a tiny (2mm), rose gold stud. it sits so flush with my nose that the overwhelming majority of people don’t notice it. I’ve had people I’ve worked with for years suddenly in the right light say “oh, you have a nosering!”. I work in a relatively casual office but have also done consulting with major financial firms and haven’t had anyone even say boo about it. I love it. I originally got it after seeing a woman in her 40’s who had something similar, something you couldn’t see until the light hit it. It looked so feminine but also subtle.
hoola hoopa
Exact same here.
The only time anyone has ever commented on it being an issue in the workplace was upon being hired in a health care setting nearly a decade ago. While giving me the introductory tour, the admin asst to department head (who had a visible tattoo) commented that I might need to take it out to comply with the dress code policy. It was technically against the dress code, but I didn’t and no one said boo. Shoes with more than one color also were against policy, though, to give some perspective. I did once have my sleeves actually measured with a ruler once to decide if they complied with the dress code once.