I wanted to point something out. It came to mind because I'm resuming an employment placement program through Vocational Rehabilitation. I had been previously assessed for a similar program, and the (female) case workers took points off of my job readiness evaluation for my "hygiene." I was concerned that I smelled bad or something and didn't know it, so I asked them about it, and all it turned out to be was that I wasn't wearing makeup. That's right, just because I was a woman, wearing makeup was considered part of acceptable work-ready personal hygiene. They wouldn't have docked a man, clean and groomed to the same degree I was, for not wearing makeup. But a woman is considered somehow not as professional-looking without it. By the way, I had not been told, before the evaluation started, that a professional appearance would be expected of me.

I ended up not being placed in a job that time because who's going to read "poor personal hygiene" in an evaluation, and hire that person? They made it sound like I didn't take a shower or something.