We must love them then at least?Īpparently not! Such women are considered too weak and submissive to head a team. Has so much analysis ever been done for men?Īt the end of the spectrum are women who are rather soft-spoken. A female employee said matter-of-factly that women’s “ mood swings” and temperament said it could be due to PMS! But are women really arrogant or are men automatically offended at the thought of taking instructions from a woman?Īnother employee even went to the extent of saying that female bosses are very mean, and it is probably because they fought with their husbands and are “frustrated”. However, women seniors are considered “rude” “arrogant” and “aggressive” by male employees at the drop of a hat! Of course, nobody should be rude, man or woman. I have heard of male employees being applauded for sticking to their ground in meetings. There would be a 100 trainings on Youtube and Linkedin on how to be assertive without being aggressive. After that I could wear my churidars!!īut the problem is – when woman do dress up especially in westerns, then also they are thought to be too much into their looks and therefore dumb! If they do not dress up well, they are considered behenjis and non presentable. She got annoyed and repeated that for the first day they wanted a “proper formal” look. “This is India!” I wanted to add but refrained. It reminded me of a previous job when a female HR employee told me that I should not wear a churidar kurta on the first day because they wanted a “formal look”! “Chudridar kurta is formal!” I said. One guy said that at that level “presentation” was more important and that lady was not fit to lead a multinational because she only wore salwar suits and didn’t pay much attention to her looks! I talked to few men, both at senior and relatively not so senior levels. Never miss real stories from India's women. They said that wearing jhumka with a jacket was ridiculed. “A lot of these rules apply only to women”, says Palki as she and journalist Smita Prakash discuss about how women’s attire is always a topic of discussion. Phew! So many rules! No wonder it is easy to go wrong. She warned us that the more skin we show, the lesser respect we get so we should measure the length of our skirts by standing straight with our arms to our sides, and if the skirt falls above our hands then the skirt is too short! She encouraged us to put on makeup and added that we should touch up our makeup and hair during the day so that we don’t look end up like Monjulika by EOD! She said that bindi goes well with Indian wear, however it should be avoided with western wear. Women on the hand, could wear colorful tops and need not restrict themselves to the blues and the whites and the blacks. The instructor told us that men should not get creative with shirt colours unless they want to be the known as the Govinda of office. It was a multinational firm and very strict about wearing formals. I remember a corporate training at my first job where a female instructor was talking to us about dresscode.
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