Gender bias in your dress code?

摘要

SINCE MY LAST column on how to write a dress code was published, a debate and associated petition has been introduced to Parliament in the United Kingdom regarding draconian and rather sexist dress codes often imposed on women in workplaces. This petition (that it be illegal for an employer to require a woman to wear heels at work) was bought by British woman Nicola Thorp who was sent home from her temporary role for wearing flat shoes. It should be noted that Thorp was in fact employed by an employment agency; and it was their dress code she was in breach of.