Yeah good old Boy’s Clubs and there customs….to go further and more important than dress codes for me...Kirsten Gillibrand’s “Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change the World” and Tali Mendelberg’s “The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation and Institutions” are both good reads about the disempowerment of women and sexism that can be in male dominated groups. Mendelberg did studies on the patterns of interaction in different business group contexts. Not surprisingly showing male dominated groups with majority rule can be more adversarial to women with more negative interruptions and competitive behavior. Showing female dominated groups can be more inclusive of the minority male members and with much less male negativity.....
Ellie talks about this at the company…..about the company not just being diverse, which it is, but more importantly being anti-inequality....and in her and my thinking with sensible intelligent people with a good work ethic that's more important than what someone is wearing. Personally I like looking professional for certain meetings but that's me and I also look at more important things than what someone is wearing in my interactions with them. Ellie also gave me those two books I mentioned to read.
Btw..I wear dresses, dress pants and jeans occasionally on my milano commuter….a step through frame, a chain guard and either a skirt guard (lots of interesting ones on esty), rear baskets or panniers ftw. Now, with a short light flowy dress you need to think about wind.
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‘The negative feelings we all have can be addictive…just as the positive…it’s up to
us to decide which ones we want to choose and feed”… Pema Chodron