September 17, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, September 17
…and some art, since I’m writing these on September 16.
- It’s election day in parts of Fulton County and the City of Atlanta!
- We’ve established that Georgia is in play in 2020 – possibly for a Democratic Presidential debate.
- We have the initial results of air quality testing in Cobb and Fulton Counties. The good news is that 80% of the test sites show no measurable Ethylene Oxide. The bad news is that 20% of the test sites do show measurably amounts of the toxic chemical.
- The trade war with China is almost a year old. Here’s what that means for Americans, based on prices at a Georgia WalMart.
- Regulators are bogged down with comments relating to proposed strip mining in the Okefenokee.
- For women, the potential economic costs of not wearing makeup to work.
About Author
Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Cus I love Milton…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/16/when-milton-met-shakespeare-poets-notes-on-bard-appear-to-have-been-found
Fascinating article on female executives and grooming expectations. I have long been a proponent of following one’s individuality within reason. I decided when I first started teaching in 1985 that I would be a wearer of flats. Still am, most of the time. I am also an aficionado of pretty, feminine dresses, much more so than suits. Unless somebody needs firin’ or there’s a major negotiation to be done with a vendor.
I attended an excellent training in Boston a few years ago for females on developing executive presence. I was amused at the fashion, hair, and makeup advice. Dark color, flatironed stick-straight, chin-length bob was the “expert” advice on how to be taken seriously. Also, dark, neutral suits, no florals, and no dresses.
Bless their hearts.
Signed,
A successful female CEO
I spent more than 40 years in the business world, working for everything from small entrepreneurial companies to government to multinationals and witnessed the entire spectrum of women in the workforce. From a mother of three who was the best manager I ever had but hit IBM’s glass ceiling that was very evident in the eighties to an “executive vice president” without qualifications other than being the mistress of the president. While I am sure that dressing for success has more bearing on females it is also a male thing as well for those seeking the top rung of the ladder. I once worked out in the basement gym of one company with a male assistant director that spent 30 minutes working out and more than an hour primping and dressing. We laughed about it but the joke was on us as he made it to VP then changed companies to become a president followed by two different CEO stints.
Looking the part seems to be important regardless, but yes it is more important for women who seek to be in the highest echelons. As a lifelong male geek I really had no preferences on how others dressed although it seemed to me that my female coworkers were often the most critical of their counterparts in this area. I worked with one fellow programmer who would have been stunning in a burlap sack. To be taken seriously she wore windowpane glasses. The only pet peeve I can confess to is wearing ridiculously long fake fingernails when you are expected to use a keyboard as part of the job.
Oyez! Oyez! SCOTUS issued its arguments calendar for December today, and the OCGA copyright case, Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org , will be heard on December 2.