I had already decided to wear my fake glasses (my old glasses pre-LASIK with the lenses replaced with glass. don't laugh, they're funky) to interviews when I start job-hunting... this kind of thing re-affirms how it is sometimes, sadly, best for women to down-play their femininity when making first impressions.
From NYT Nicholas Kristoff, Feb 10 2008, When Women Rule:
"In monarchies, women who rose to the top dealt mostly with a narrow elite, so they could prove themselves and get on with governing. But in democracies in the television age, female leaders also have to navigate public prejudices — and these make democratic politics far more challenging for a woman than for a man.
In one common experiment, the “Goldberg paradigm,” people are asked to evaluate a particular article or speech, supposedly by a man. Others are asked to evaluate the identical presentation, but from a woman. Typically, in countries all over the world, the very same words are rated higher coming from a man.
In particular, one lesson from this research is that promoting their own successes is a helpful strategy for ambitious men. But experiments have demonstrated that when women highlight their accomplishments, that’s a turn-off. And women seem even more offended by self-promoting females than men are."
Society, why do you make the rules so gosh-darn crazy?!?
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