Unit D Blog #23

Not only are there less women of power in virtually every position around our country, when they do achieve a position of power, they are often scrutinized for their attire. The clothing choices of women in the fields of politics and law are a hot topic, and they are often brought up in the modern media. At any given time you could open up the Internet and on websites such as Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc. there are headline stories about a certain political figure looking a certain way. I found an article by John McCain's daughter which stated that Hillary Clinton was "viewed as too hard because she didn't pay enough attention to fashion and beauty," and Sarah Palin was viewed as "too soft because she did just the opposite." What you have in this situation is a complete gender bias that is very unfair to women in professional attire. There is no reason that a woman should be judged for her attire any more than a man would be. As long as the attire is professional then there should be no further comment. Women in the field of law also are faced with a decision of whether they want to dress A-sexually as to not "intimidate" their male coworkers, or whether they want to dress in a "nice" manner which some coworkers could think of as sexy. This situation is completely unfair and this is just another situation in where a woman is placed under scrutiny and biased because of their gender.