Women in Business and Workfest.

[LookNiceYah]

Gratz Mumsnet. Bravo.

It's not often I'm speechless but OMG

Yes, that makes women in business look completely credible.

Oh FFS.

I'm reporting your post look because I want to make sure someone from MNHQ sees it once they've finished doing their hair

MNHQ have just posted a thread, letting us all know that the self esteem workshop will be sponsored by a Nice N Easy

Sorry, no idea where the 'a' came from there.

I could hug you all. Glad it's not just me.

I mean there's nowt wrong with having nice hair, feeling good about yourself. Seriously, go for it and fucking own it. But at a business event?

I've started my own business in the last year. Hair is the least of my worries. A friend also started her own business two years ago, she's going from strength to strength. She's in the papers talking about bank charges for businesses and how it impacts. Should have done a style column instead.

Sponsored thread here

I've got my own business and now I'm really, really worried about my hair! What opportunities have I missed, because hair?

Oh this is...sad. Depressing. Insulting. Backwards.

Mumsnet wtf? Come ON.

What alternative sponsors would be good? I'm struggling to think off the top of my head as most companies rely on separating men and women to maximise sales.

Just for men would probably sponsor a similarly male event.

A few things which make my life in business easier:

accounting software
great online printing service
a babysitting service for when we can't manage to share childcare
mailing list manager

Not friggin' hair care products

Sure i dont actually need to point this out to anyone, but i feel uncomfortable that it isnt just a beauty product, but one that uses a large chunk of its packaging to focus on 'grey coverage' and is thus a bit "not only do you need to look fab in business, you need to not be old"

(And i know people dont just dye their hair because it is grey, before someone points that out. Mine is blue, for example. Its just an extra element of why it is a peculiar choice for mn)

Agreed Beyond. Always worth a mention as to be honest I hadn't thought about the link with Nice and Easy and the implied ageism.

Calm down you bloody feminazis! Doesn't everyone call in sick on a bad hair day citing 'women's problems'?

It is a reminder that FWR is only a tiny corner of Mumsnet's far-flung empire, forgotten most of the time.

Mumsnet have responded on the thread Worra kindly linked too.

Oh dear.

and it seemed reasonable, therefore, to think that some women who are returning to work after a career break will be considering how to present themselves in the workplace, after a chunk of time away from it

And who, apart from women who last worked around 1950, have no friends, or female relatives, never leave the house and have no access to television and the Internet, would this be?

I don't have a problem with it being sponsored by Nice 'n' Easy but be honest that they are there to sell things- don't dress it up as anything useful.

Sponsors which would be less objectionable would say Hobbs or Cos. If you have been out of the workplace until children start school getting pointed in the right direction of good quality, wearable but smart clothes isn't too awful.