More Corporate Abuse – Woman Must Wear High Heels

Following on the heels of the cartoonist who was fired from the Farm News in Iowa, we now have Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) sending a female receptionist home because she was not wearing high heels. This is the largest professional services firm in the world and one of the four remaining large accounting firms. All credit to Ms. Thorpe for asking how wearing flats impaired her from doing her job – of course, she received no good answer. What’s more, apparently this is technically legal, even in this day and age. As a temporary worker, Ms. Thorpe possibly felt a little more liberty to speak up – I wonder whether salaried employees have simply put up with this discrimination in fear for their jobs.  And where do these companies that are supposedly employing the best qualified candidates out there find such retrogrades that would actually create and enforce policies like this…