"Some have been quick to criticize other women for striving to uphold these beauty standards in the first place, saying that they should simply reject them altogether. On an episode of the NPR podcast Code Switch, Noliwe Rooks, an associate professor at Cornell University, argued that people should instead attempt to decolonize Western beauty standards. However, it’s often much more complicated. Pushing back against employment standards is a privilege, since not everyone can afford to jeopardize their employment—especially at a time when, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, over '28 percent of Indigenous Peoples and 31 percent of racialized individuals live with economic insecurity, compared to 16 percent of white individuals.' Coupled with unfair wages, these factors force racialized folks—who make up about 21 percent of the general workforce but account for 22 percent of retail and 30 percent of hospitality work, according to 2016 census data used in a Future Skills Centre report—to take on the additional burden of having to advocate for themselves when it comes to beauty standards."
~ Ashlynn Chand
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