- October 8, 2024
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There are not nearly enough women leaders, and when we have women leaders, we don't even know how to treat them.
For example, Vogue's September issue has a two-page spread with Yahoo!'s CEO Marissa Mayer. Her Vogue photo includes her lying upside down on a lawn chair in a sexy blue dress in stilettos with an iPad in her hand. It's a gorgeous picture, and something you would expect from Vogue, but is it inappropriate for the leader of a Fortune 500 company to be photographed like this?
I suppose it would be difficult to imagine a male CEO sprawled out on furniture - would they even be asked to do that? Is it blatantly sexualizing a top business woman because she's a woman?
In reality, this shouldn't be a debate. Her changes to the once troubled Yahoo! should be the focus. But the public can't seem to decide if this is sexist or not.
A couple Floridians weighed in on the controversy, both supporting Mayer's Vogue shoot.
Marissa Mayer catches hell for Vogue photo, but to me, that she's willing to be a "girl" despite her job makes me respect her more not less.
— David Johnson (@djohn6996) August 16, 2013
This is rediculous. You go girl! Yahoo's Marissa Mayer turns heads with Vogue photo shoot http://t.co/7af6hPfQqw
— Jennifer McGuire (@jmcguireFLA) August 20, 2013
So, what do you think?