Barbara Walters is only known for her speech impediment.

I don’t think I have ever seen her, but do you think it could be because you usually don’t think of someone with a speech impediment being in the TV business?

I went from a job where I worked with almost all women to one where I work with almost all men (and they are all engineers).

I now wear the same thing every week. Every. Single. Week. As an experiment, I decided to see if I could go an entire year without buying new clothes.

Yes, I could. It was easy.

Male engineers do not care.

(Also, there is NO DRAMA with men, but that’s another topic.)

Signed,

Never quitting this job

Yep, I agree. It is mainly women who make a fuss about what other women wear.

Case in point – during the last US presidential election, a neighbor and I were discussing this very topic about how there is a double standard for women politicians. While the men seem to get away with wearing the same suit a woman would be noticed for wearing the same or “wrong” or whatever thing.

Just as we were saying this, my neighbor (a woman BTW) blurted out – did you see her (meaning Hillary) hair the other day? What on earth was she thinking by not “doing anything with it! I’d be embarrassed to go out the house looking like that!”

Can I talk about the interesting fact that we had 3 weather women on 3 different stations all pregnant at the same time? It was quite amusing flipping through the stations.

Yet Shepherd Smith’s plastic surgery work is painfully obvious, and in my town, the male lead newscaster gets balder every year and the weatherman’s attempt at a toupee is laughable. The morning guy’s tie never matches his suit. But no one talks about these men. It’s an insane double standard.

Yes, let’s look beyond the clothes and the make up and the hairdo’s of these women and focus on the extent to which they can deliver news, conduct interviews, and explore the issues that matter.

I’ll be honest–people click on articles about Megyn Kelly. They don’t click on articles about other women the same way. Why? I don’t know. But they do.

There is a total double standard, but I think it’s women pushing other women into it. Men just flat out don’t care as much as other women do.

This has happened: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/nov/17/male-tv-presenter-same-suit-year-female-colleagues-judged
Just one point of anecdata, but there you go.