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Does Looking Sexy Advance Your Career (and even if it does, should you care)?

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Bitter Lawyer has a post by a very modest writer known at least to herself as "Law Firm 10" (yes, her nom de plume should give you a sense of where the article is heading) entitled Erin Andrews, Esq. Erin Andrews, TV sports reporter, is, according to Law Firm 10, a "(reasonably) stylish, non-overweight, attractive woman," and consequently "men love her and, surprisingly, even respect her," which Law Firm 10 credits as the reason that Erin Andrews' "career is blowing up." Question 1: why do we need men to love and respect us in order for our careers to blow up? Of course we need respect from our superiors, from the people who make the decisions about who gets promoted and who doesn't, who gets the best assignments and who doesn't, but are all of these superiors men? They shouldn't be. Hopefully they aren't. But even if they are, does it really help women move forward to get ahead by pleasing men the old-fashioned way (you like what you see, throw a great assignment my way, and maybe I'll wear a tight shirt to the meeting and bend over in front of you)? SERIOUSLY?

Full post as published by Ms. JD on December 13, 2008 (boomark / email).