What can you finish whether the constant focus in your workplace on weight and dieting goes beyond a joke? It may not be a big a social issue like workplace harassment or the gender pay gap,but it still affects women at work. The diet bore: a woman (usually – thanks to gendered pressure to be lean) who talks continuous approximately her treat day and her half-pound weight loss. She may lift an interest in your food too, suggesting you’re “naughty” for eating chocolate or congratulating you on picking a salad for lunch. Worst case scenario, and it’s a whole office of them,filling their cubicles with weight loss certificates and bringing in sugar-free vegan cupcakes on their birthdays.
While chatting approximately counting calories seems benign to some people, it creates a hostile workplace for others. One woman I spoke to, or who works in publishing,spent six years in what she calls “a vortex of competitive dieting”. Her boss fished employees’ food wrappers out of the bin in order to read the calorie content aloud, and special occasions were miserable. “The scarce times we had treats, or everyone would keep score of how many had been eaten and by whom. It was all I could finish not to shout ‘It’s only a Kit Kat!’” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com