They are slim, pretty and wear a chic, subtly perfumed uniform with skirts: stewardesses always look as if peeled out of the egg.Your hair and nails are made, they are perfectly made up and have bright white teeth.Your smile: flawless.
The British airline Virgin Atlantic Airways, for example, has so far contractually stipulated stewardesses to wear rouge, mascara and red lipstick at work.That's enough of that.Since the 8th.March 2019, World Women's Day, Virgin Atlantic loosened the make-up obligation for her employees.From now on it is up to the stewardesses whether and how much they are made up.
Instead of make-up and rock: pants and naturalness
And that's not all.Since the 8th.March eats are also given uniform trousers in March-in addition to the otherwise obligatory skirt.
What about other airlines?The guidelines are still considered to the exterior of the employees:
The motto of the airlines: beauty is part of the job.The stewardesses are supposed to represent the airline as beautiful as possible.But who determines what beauty is?And why can't every woman choose when and how she is beautiful?
Do unadorned women look neglected?
But why the whole thing?Behind the make-up obligation is probably the certainty that unvarnished women look neglected.Virgin Atlantic wants to prove that this is nonsense with his compulsory delivery.
Wouldn't "cultivated appearance" be enough?You don't need make-up for this.Well -groomed means: freshly showered, clean clothes, combed hair and no leftovers on the face.Incidentally, this applies to men who work as a flight attendant: you just have to trim your nails and hair - done!Why the higher demands on women?Why is it so massively differentiated between the sexes?And why is femininity still equated with perfection?
Virgin Airways justifies the change as follows: the employees should not be forced to do something and thus feel more comfortable at work.The make-up obligation should have been deleted at the request of the stewardesses itself.After all, women do not ask for women to sit at the office table or cash register.
After all, stewardesses once even had to commit high heels - today this no longer applies to most airlines.Some nevertheless prescribe an obligation to sell (without a centimeter specification).
