Surely there's an app for this

Post date: 2019-04-15 15:01:19

I'm a late 20s/early 30s (vague to protect my identity!!!) white woman in tech in Silicon Valley. Is there any actual research on how people in my field, in this region, react to how I might dress?

I realize there are a lot of caveats here; for instance, the idea that it's on women to dress according to vague and shifting standards in order to be taken seriously, when ideally we would not have to prove ourselves in that way (especially when men wear wtf ever around here). However, frankly I'm sick of deciding what to wear to work and am more used to industries where the dress code is much clearer, and if there is actual research that might make me feel a bit less hamstrung... hey, why not.

Basically I'm looking for some research that says "we made men and women engineers look at a bunch of photots of women dressed in different ways and rate their maturity and competency as computer scientists based on appearance," but you know, in the form of an actual study.

I know there are lots of random articles about this, and I know women can wear jeans and hoodies too, but as I'm getting a bit older now I'm sick of being mistaken for a 23 year old when I dress "cool" and am hoping, without much optimism, that there's some secret subconscious method to how women are judged around here. Thaaaaaaaaanks.

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