The bank of England is in trouble today. Not because of the terrible mess that the bankers have made of the world economy, but because they dared to offer a seminar in which they gave women advice on what to wear for work. This is of course demeaning to women and the equivalent of telling a Jehova's Witness that they might just be wrong.
Women's groups are up in arms of course, why would they not be? After all no such advice is offered to men. It would seem that women are being judged on their appearance rather than their performance.
And yet, most women, at least the ones that I know, are obsessed about their appearance, and have wardrobes and underwear drawers bursting at the seams with expensive collections of nicely shaped bits of cloth. How often do we hear "I don't know what to wear" or "I haven't a thing to wear" or similar pleas for advice? Do men ask - does my bum look big in this? or even How do I look?
A man might take ten minutes to get ready to go out, and in that time can shower, shave, brush teeth and be ready to go. A woman on the other hand can take hours, and even then may not be happy with how she looks, making adjustments right up to the last minute and then considering going back and starting again.
I have no idea how the seminar ran or if they had any takers, but anything that could get a woman ready to go from scratch in ten minutes would be a very marketable product.
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