“Stop whining!” blasted the email from my friend, a senior finance lawyer. “Women need to whip themselves into shape, get Botox, buy nice clothes and glam it up. Time to get in touch with our inner Ivanka and Melania.” She goes on: “They are the new role models!” She was joking. Sort of.
So far, this much is clear: President-elect Trump is making some women in male-dominated professions such as law anxious—and not just about his policies. He has tapped into our primal insecurities about our looks, and how our physical flaws can diminish our professional success.
