I think it's a bit excessive, as long as her face wasn't covered I can't see why it's such a big deal to let her wear her headscarf. I can see the argument if it was a full burqa with a face covering, because that's an identity issue, but if you can see her face then I don't see what the problem is.
I don't agree with the Muslim head coverings, these are not fashionable items of clothing, they are tools used to repress women. However, entertaining the idea that it is 100% her own un-pressured choice to wear it, I think she should have that right even if I don't agree. I do think more should be done to make sure headscarf wearing isn't forced or pressured though, and discourage wearing it too.
As for companies wanting to maintain a "corporate image", I think a lot of companies go too far. Shops I kinda get it, since the employees are interacting with customers and the shop wants a chic image. Office jobs though, I really don't see how wearing jeans or having (clean) dreadlocks is inappropriate in an environment where we are interacting with computer screens.
I don't agree with the Muslim head coverings, these are not fashionable items of clothing, they are tools used to repress women. However, entertaining the idea that it is 100% her own un-pressured choice to wear it, I think she should have that right even if I don't agree. I do think more should be done to make sure headscarf wearing isn't forced or pressured though, and discourage wearing it too.
As for companies wanting to maintain a "corporate image", I think a lot of companies go too far. Shops I kinda get it, since the employees are interacting with customers and the shop wants a chic image. Office jobs though, I really don't see how wearing jeans or having (clean) dreadlocks is inappropriate in an environment where we are interacting with computer screens.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
