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Modest Fashion in UK Women's Working Life

英国女性工作生活中的端庄时尚

基本信息

批准号：
AH/S001387/1
负责人：
Reina Lewis
金额：
$ 30.76万
依托单位：
University of the Arts London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS001387%2F1
关键词：
Modest Fashion UK Women Working

项目摘要

This project looks at how religiously-related modest fashion and associated behaviours impact on UK women's working lives - regardless of their own religious background or beliefs. When well-dressed UK executives borrow badly-fitting abayas for meetings in Riyadh, when schools inspectors are issued with guidance on voluntary dress codes for faith schools and when fashion forecasters mine religious media for style inspiration, we offer a new intellectual framework for understanding flashpoints about religious dress for UK interests at home and abroad. Examining the impact on UK women in Saudi Arabia and the UK, we reverse received wisdom by demonstrating that modest dressing is not only a consideration for religious women and communities. Knowing how to navigate modest codes of dress and behaviour can be an asset for: Women in the job market UK economic and political interests abroad UK policy makers and dialogue groups concerned with social cohesion and interfaith relations Research and commentary mostly view modest dress through the lens of individual choice and spiritual/political commitment. Similarly, the cross-faith modest fashion 'movement' defends women's individual right to choose whether, if and how to cover, challenging the imposition of covered dress in Iran, Saudi Arabia, or ISIS-controlled territories and its enforced removal in Quebec or France. Beyond personal motivation, we explore UK women's response to workplace requirements to change their wardrobe and behaviour - including women with their own form of modest fashion. With Muslim and minority ethnic women facing employment challenges in recruitment, retention and progression, we investigate if religiously-related codes of modest dress can be a workplace opportunity as well as inhibitor. To establish for UK business how knowledge about modest fashion can be a local and international advantage, we include women who work for UK faith-based employers and for ostensibly secular employers but in territories governed by religious codes of dress and gender segregation. At 'home' we focus on women whose work brings them into the orbit of modest dress requirements at faith-based schools, businesses and charities, whether directly employed, sub-contracted, or temporarily present (e.g. visiting artists). Abroad we focus on UK companies doing business in Saudi Arabia (UK's biggest trading partner in the Middle East), talking to women in global consultancy/finance, arts leadership and international education. We investigate Human Resources professionals advising on dress and behaviour at work under UK equalities legislation, and the UK and Gulf modest fashion industry infrastructure supplying garments and style advice for modest workwear. For the fashion industry, we identify and analyse a new modest fashion consumer segment - women not driven by personal religious conviction. London, a world fashion city, is central for the globalised modest fashion niche market; we work with key brokers London Modest Fashion Week and Dubai's Islamic Fashion & Design Council. For policy makers and interfaith organisations, we identify new dialogue partners by expanding concepts of women's everyday religion to include the intra- and interfaith negotiation that goes on in modest fashion commerce and commentary. We will share and test responses to our early research findings with our stakeholder organisations in the UK and the Gulf, including a presentation at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion. Conclusions will be disseminated via: 2 stakeholder reports (1 for UK policy makers, business and HR professionals, 1 for the fashion industry) available free online and launched in print to stakeholders and parliamentarians at a House of Lords networking event; 5 academic conference papers; and 2 journal articles. Public facing events include 2 Faith & Fashion roundtable discussions, at LCF and Saudi Arabia.

这个项目着眼于与宗教相关的谦虚时尚和相关行为如何影响英国女性的职业生活--无论她们自己的宗教背景或信仰如何。当衣着光鲜的英国高管为利雅得的会议借用不合身的长袍时，当学校检查人员得到宗教学校自愿着装规范的指导时，当时尚预测者从宗教媒体中获得时尚灵感时，我们为理解国内外英国利益的宗教着装引爆点提供了一个新的智力框架。研究了沙特阿拉伯和英国对英国女性的影响，我们推翻了公认的观点，证明适度着装不仅是宗教女性和社区的考虑因素。知道如何遵循谦逊的着装和行为规范可能是一种财富：就业市场上的女性、英国在海外的经济和政治利益、英国的政策制定者和关注社会凝聚力和宗教间关系的对话团体研究和评论大多从个人选择和精神/政治承诺的角度来看待朴素的着装。同样，这场跨信仰的时尚运动捍卫了女性的个人权利，她们有权选择是否、是否以及如何遮盖，挑战在伊朗、沙特阿拉伯或ISIS控制的地区强制实施遮盖礼服的做法，并在魁北克或法国强制取消这种做法。除了个人动机，我们还探讨了英国女性对职场要求的反应，改变了她们的衣柜和行为--包括拥有自己谦逊时尚形式的女性。鉴于穆斯林和少数民族女性在招聘、留住和晋升方面面临就业挑战，我们调查了与宗教相关的谦虚着装规范是否会成为工作机会和阻碍因素。为了向英国企业证明，对朴素时尚的了解如何成为当地和国际优势，我们纳入了一些女性，她们为英国基于信仰的雇主工作，也为表面上世俗的雇主工作，但所在地区受到宗教着装规范和性别隔离的约束。在“家里”，我们关注的是女性，她们的工作将她们带入了宗教学校、企业和慈善机构的适度着装要求的轨道上，无论是直接受雇、转包还是临时存在(例如来访的艺术家)。在国外，我们专注于在沙特阿拉伯(英国在中东最大的贸易伙伴)做生意的英国公司，与全球咨询/金融、艺术领导力和国际教育领域的女性交谈。我们调查了根据英国平等法就工作中的着装和行为提供建议的人力资源专业人士，以及英国和海湾地区的适度时尚业基础设施，为适度的工作服提供服装和时尚建议。对于时尚行业，我们识别和分析了一个新的适度时尚消费群体--不受个人宗教信仰驱使的女性。伦敦，一个世界时尚城市，是全球化的适度时尚利基市场的中心；我们与伦敦适度时装周和迪拜伊斯兰时尚与设计委员会的主要经纪人合作。对于政策制定者和跨宗教组织，我们通过扩大女性日常宗教的概念来确定新的对话伙伴，将在适度的时尚商业和评论中进行的信仰内和信仰间谈判包括在内。我们将与英国和海湾地区的利益相关者组织分享和测试对我们早期研究结果的反应，包括在时尚道德和可持续发展跨党派议会小组的演讲。结论将通过以下方式传播：2份利益攸关方报告(1份面向英国政策制定者、商业和人力资源专业人士，1份针对时尚业)，可在网上免费提供，并在上议院的一次网络活动中以印刷形式分发给利益攸关方和议员；5篇学术会议论文；2篇期刊文章。面向公众的活动包括在LCF和沙特阿拉伯举行的2场信仰与时尚圆桌讨论会。