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beccaelizabethbeen reading more about gender inequalities in paid employment.
there's a study on expectations from female service sector staff, waitresses and that.
it says female staff (but not male) were required to be attractive, and also clean. (Why aren't men required to be clean? I'd call clean a health and safety issue entirely unrelated to gender.)
It also said that female staff were expected to respond to sexual harassment by keeping the customer happy.
that made me ???
I mean I can see the money logic behind it, but the people logic is well lacking.
in the definition of sexual harassment is a lot of 'unwanted's. If it isn't unwanted, its more or less not harassment. So how is anyone to figure they're doing sexual harassment if the person it is aimed at is being smiles about it?
I mean my understanding of the rules is you say something and see if someone says something nice back or tells you off. (Not that I've actually managed anything of the sort myself, so its a terribly academic understanding). Requiring anyone to do other than that is *not playing by the rules*, which is cheating, and makes a mess for everyone.
I'm... disproportinately offended by this idea.
Employees are required to lie! Woe! And shock!
;-)
okays, put like that, less shock...
but why do people think thats a good idea?
Keep customer happy? Well surely customer could be just as happy if its pointed out that 'waitress' is a purely practical role involving food, not flirting. Because that is the deal, money for goods. Should be simple.
I suppose I've heard of parts of what was said in this section before. Being required to have pretty makeup was in the news a while back. Stuff like that.
But... well, there's a lot in the other sections about roles, and how society works smoothly because everyone knows what they are.
Is the expectation of male customers that the role of a waitress is to accept unwanted attention? Or do men just think they're that hot waitresses everywhere want them?
Is said its mostly male supervisors telling off female employees about this stuff. Firing them if they don't play by fake rules. All very wonky.
Confuses me terribly, this whole area does. I purely don't understand how people can see male-female as so much changing things. People are people, and can do things, and why is that not the whole of it???
*puzzlement*
Also, I'm suddenly wondering on the status of this kind of thing in gay bars etc. Like, is it like that at male staff, or is it all business, or what? Hmmmm, research project...
there's a study on expectations from female service sector staff, waitresses and that.
it says female staff (but not male) were required to be attractive, and also clean. (Why aren't men required to be clean? I'd call clean a health and safety issue entirely unrelated to gender.)
It also said that female staff were expected to respond to sexual harassment by keeping the customer happy.
that made me ???
I mean I can see the money logic behind it, but the people logic is well lacking.
in the definition of sexual harassment is a lot of 'unwanted's. If it isn't unwanted, its more or less not harassment. So how is anyone to figure they're doing sexual harassment if the person it is aimed at is being smiles about it?
I mean my understanding of the rules is you say something and see if someone says something nice back or tells you off. (Not that I've actually managed anything of the sort myself, so its a terribly academic understanding). Requiring anyone to do other than that is *not playing by the rules*, which is cheating, and makes a mess for everyone.
I'm... disproportinately offended by this idea.
Employees are required to lie! Woe! And shock!
;-)
okays, put like that, less shock...
but why do people think thats a good idea?
Keep customer happy? Well surely customer could be just as happy if its pointed out that 'waitress' is a purely practical role involving food, not flirting. Because that is the deal, money for goods. Should be simple.
I suppose I've heard of parts of what was said in this section before. Being required to have pretty makeup was in the news a while back. Stuff like that.
But... well, there's a lot in the other sections about roles, and how society works smoothly because everyone knows what they are.
Is the expectation of male customers that the role of a waitress is to accept unwanted attention? Or do men just think they're that hot waitresses everywhere want them?
Is said its mostly male supervisors telling off female employees about this stuff. Firing them if they don't play by fake rules. All very wonky.
Confuses me terribly, this whole area does. I purely don't understand how people can see male-female as so much changing things. People are people, and can do things, and why is that not the whole of it???
*puzzlement*
Also, I'm suddenly wondering on the status of this kind of thing in gay bars etc. Like, is it like that at male staff, or is it all business, or what? Hmmmm, research project...