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When professional advancement requires gender conformity

I've been dressing androgynously for months and my boss pulled me aside to say my appearance is 'confusing clients' and I need to look more professional.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Someone faces the choice between career stability and authentic self-expression in environments that equate conformity with competence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender non-conformity across cultures?”

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