Depending on where you work, the costs can be even steeper. The fashion, advertising, and hospitality industries are particularly brutal for women. When I was an editor at Condé Nast, a publisher known for magazines like Vogue and Glamour, every item of clothing, pocketbook, and pair of shoes I wore was scrutinized, even though I worked at a business publication and didn’t share the same elevator bank as the fashion editors. Walking into the company cafeteria, with a sea of eyes staring you up and down, could turn into an exercise of doubt and self-flagellation.
Aren’t these orgs filled with women though? Is this pressure all coming ultimately from men (male social dominance fuels the fashion industry as a whole and the workplaces within the industry are concentrations of that pressure?).
I guess I would hope that organizations largely run by women would be free of most of this nonsense.
Or wait, they’re not actually run by men, are they?
