The “grooming gap” is almost definitely hurting your wallet: via Salon
$473 million on relaxers, weaves and other hair care in 2017, in part because of racist ideas that natural Black hair is not professional or attractive. Black workers annually spend nine times more on hair and beauty products than other workers.
At work and in the world, all women — cis and trans — feel the pressure to conform to normative standards of femininity and attractiveness. But the solution to this problem isn’t to throw away all the eyeshadow or take out a new line of credit for weekly manicures. The solution is to organize together.
Regardless of whether a workplace is unionized, workers can still organize to challenge gender inequity on the job. There’s aaround organizing for workers to be paid wages for time spent commuting to work, since commuting is a necessity. The same could be said of the grooming that women do before leaving for work.
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