Modest Fashion in UK Women's Working Life

该项目着眼于与宗教有关的适度时尚和相关行为如何影响英国妇女的工作生活-无论她们自己的宗教背景或信仰如何。当衣着考究的英国高管们在利雅得借穿不合身的长袍开会时，当学校督察收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寻找时尚灵感时，我们提供了一个新的知识框架，以了解英国国内外利益的宗教着装热点。 研究对沙特阿拉伯和英国女性的影响，我们通过证明适度的着装不仅是宗教女性和社区的考虑因素来扭转公认的智慧。知道如何驾驭适度的着装和行为规范可以是一种资产：女性在就业市场英国的经济和政治利益在国外英国的政策制定者和对话团体关注社会凝聚力和宗教间的关系研究和评论大多通过个人选择和精神/政治承诺的透镜来看待适度的着装。同样，跨信仰的温和时尚"运动"捍卫妇女选择是否、是否以及如何遮盖的个人权利，挑战伊朗、沙特阿拉伯或ISIS控制地区强制实施的遮盖服装，以及魁北克或法国强制取消的遮盖服装。 除了个人动机之外，我们还探讨了英国女性对工作场所要求的反应，以改变她们的衣柜和行为-包括拥有自己的适度时尚形式的女性。随着穆斯林和少数民族妇女在招聘，保留和进步面临的就业挑战，我们调查，如果与宗教有关的适度着装的代码可以是一个工作场所的机会，以及抑制剂。为了让英国企业了解适度时尚如何成为当地和国际优势，我们包括为英国信仰雇主工作的女性，以及为表面上世俗的雇主工作，但在宗教着装和性别隔离的地区工作的女性。 在“家庭”，我们专注于妇女的工作，使他们进入适度的着装要求的轨道，在信仰为基础的学校，企业和慈善机构，无论是直接雇用，分包，或暂时存在（例如访问艺术家）。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）开展业务的英国公司，与全球咨询/金融，艺术领导和国际教育领域的女性交谈。我们调查了人力资源专业人士，根据英国平等立法，为工作中的着装和行为提供建议，以及英国和海湾地区为普通工作服提供服装和风格建议的时尚行业基础设施。 对于时尚行业，我们确定并分析了一个新的适度的时尚消费群体--不受个人宗教信仰驱动的女性。伦敦是世界时尚之都，是全球化的时尚利基市场的中心;我们与伦敦Modest时装周和迪拜伊斯兰时尚与设计理事会的主要经纪人合作。 对于政策制定者和宗教间组织，我们通过扩大妇女日常宗教的概念来确定新的对话伙伴，以包括在适度的时尚商业和评论中进行的宗教内和宗教间谈判。 我们将与我们在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回应，包括在时尚道德和可持续发展的所有党派议会小组的演讲。结论将通过以下方式传播：2份利益相关者报告（1份针对英国政策制定者，商业和人力资源专业人士，1份针对时尚行业）可在网上免费获得，并在上议院网络活动中向利益相关者和议员发布印刷版; 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次信仰与时尚圆桌讨论会。

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.