On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, [ISO-8859-1] Caitlyn Máire Martin wrote:
> > I wouldn't work in a skirt because there's *no way* i'm going to play
> > along with the old corporate attitude that woman should pantyhose to
> > work, but at the same time i don't feel like having to talk to
> > everyone about the hair on my legs either ...
>
> Unfortunately, that makes a whole lot of otherwise decent places to work
> inaccessible to you, or else just keep you out of management, even
> technical management. It will also keep you out of most positions
> involving any contact with a customer, and that can include senior
> technical positions.
This is not true in California (by law) and it may well not be true in
other areas.
> I do shave my legs and hate any hair there, but that's just me.
I don't shave my legs often, but I wear pants mostly. If I DO wear a
skirt, I shave. I shaved under my arms once in high school and decided
that it sucked. Fortunately, I don't have a lot of hair there.
> I've worked in places where dressing like you and Susannah did today, even
> when I was younger and had the body for it, would have gotten me sent home
> or fired. Of course, things are more liberal today than they used to be.
> Also, it's a lot different here in the North Carolina, or where I worked
> for IBM before in Tallahassee, Florida, that it is in say, Silicon Valley.
In San Francisco, people dressed like that to work.
> Oh, and one of the real sad things about getting old (say, almost 40, like
> me) is that you are expected to be more conservative, and can't do the
> things you could get away with at 20, which stinks sometimes.
That IS true. Funky sure isn't what it used to be for us (I'm 40).
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