Business Environment cites female workers emulate Thatcher at work
Business Environment, the serviced office provider, has recently revealed results from one of their surveys which claims that the main basis for women passing judgement on another client or colleague is on their fashion sense. According to this latest snippet of research, 72 percent of female office workers surveyed judge their colleagues on how they dress rather than their productivity, ability or attitude to work.
According to the serviced office company’s results there are still great improvements to be made in the perception of women in business . The research in which 2,000 women took part, revealed that many women still feel highly self-conscious in the workplace. 46 percent admitted to lowering their tone of voice in order to be given greater recognition at work. Over 50 percent said that they choose to dress ‘more powerfully’ in the office with 23 percent being careful to reveal less cleavage and another 23 percent opting for a lower hemline.
With the recent release of ‘The Iron Lady’ references are already being made to Margaret Thatcher who became iconic for voice lowering and power dressing. The managing director at Business Environment, David Saul commented:
‘[Margaret Thatcher] paved the way for the likes of Richard Branson and all the other entrepreneurs out there to think big and live their dream. So as the first major female leader of our times, it’s not completely unexpected that today’s women should want to emulate her in various ways – intentionally or not.’
With businesses often being male dominated it seems natural that women should make attempts to adapt to that culture however many female business moguls question the inference that subconsciously they are modelling themselves on Maggie Thatcher.
