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| Yumi Ishikawa, leader and founder of the KuToo movement, is now turning her attention to glasses (AFP Photo/Charly TRIBALLEAU) |
A Japanese woman whose campaign against mandatory high heels in the workplace won broad public support has stepped up her fight against strict corporate dress codes -- including a de-facto ban on women wearing glasses.
Actress and
freelance writer Yumi Ishikawa shot to prominence this year with her drive
against Japanese office culture, in which high heels are seen as
near-obligatory when job-hunting or working in the office.
Known by
the slogan "#KuToo" -- a play on words from the Japanese word
"kutsu", meaning shoes, and "kutsuu", meaning
"pain" -- the campaign was chosen on Monday as one of the buzzwords
of the year.
Ishikawa's
latest petition to relax the rules, delivered to the labour ministry on
Tuesday, has attracted more than 31,000 signatures.
"The
root cause of the problem is that (there are companies) that have rules for
women only -- such as a ban on wearing glasses or a requirement to wear
make-up," the 32-year-old told reporters.
"This
practice has to be reviewed," she added.
Campaigners
had already submitted a petition to the government in June which called for
legislation to declare the obligatory wearing of high heels as harassment.
But
Ishikawa said progress had been lukewarm and she was "shocked to see there
was no mention of high heels" in the government's draft rules published in
October.
An official
who received the petition said the labour ministry would "consider the
petition as one of the opinions" before making a final decision on new
government rules to counter harassment in workplace.
One
28-year-old woman contacted by AFP, who asked to remain anonymous, said glasses
were banned at her workplace because they give a "cold facial
expression".
"I've
been wearing glasses for more than a decade because I suffer from dry eye syndrome.
I feel uncomfortable wearing contact lenses and am worried that my eye disease
may get worse," said the receptionist.
An official
at a major employment agency told AFP that come companies asked receptionists
to "refrain from wearing glasses" as part of dress codes that also
included a ban on dyed hair or unmanicured nails.
Campaigners
have said high heels are akin to modern foot-binding while others have urged
other dress codes, such as the near-total donning of business suits for men, to
be loosened in the Japanese workplace.
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