Barred from Wearing Glasses, Japan Working Women Take to Twitter
- Some companies enforce a no glasses policy for female workers
- Frustration follows #KuToo movement seeking change for women
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Japanese women are fighting for the right to wear eyeglasses to work, a new front in the growing movement that demands an end to the prescriptive beauty standards faced by female employees.
The hashtag “glasses ban” started trending on Twitter Wednesday, after Japan’s Nippon TV aired a story about companies that require female employees to wear contact lenses instead of glasses. One post decrying such policies racked up almost 25,000 retweets.