Quote Originally Posted by redgunamo View Post
It's an especially complicated Catch-22 in which women feel they need to look attractive, especially to men, in order to get anywhere, and their men also need them to because they need the money, even though they'd rather they didn't. Look so attractive to other men, that is, or need the money, even though, as ever, it was us what made the rules in the first place
There are degrees of modesty, though, and there's quite a lot of sartorial space between tiny skirt plus plunging cleavage on one hand, and the full-bananas blobby burka on the other. I expect only a tiny number of incredibly jealous or paranoid westen men would want their missus to attend work in a niqab. One might expect boobies to be covered at work, but not faces.

For me the burka and burkini debates are completely different.