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Japan's labor minister said the enforcement of these dress codes is "necessary"
Takumi Nomoto defended controversial dress codes common throughout the country that require women to wear heels to work, BBC reported. The health and labor minister said that it was “necessary” for companies to enforce these dress codes.
“It is socially accepted as something that falls within the realm of being occupationally necessary and appropriate,” he said at a parliamentary committee on Wednesday after he was asked to comment on a recent campaign launched by actor and writer Yumi Ishikawa, who is petitioning for the removal of the discriminatory workplace dress codes.
While a mandatory heels policy may indeed seem like a relic of sexist workplace environments gone by, the movement in Japan isn’t the first of its kind in recent memory. As BBC noted, similar petitions have been launched in the UK and Canada in recent years in which women successfully petitioned companies to modify their dress code requirements.....snip~
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Perk.....Women in Heels.
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