Leggings are not pants!
Just a friendly reminder. :)
This post was a reminder to me all right, but not quite in the way you intended. Specifically, you reminded me of
your August 15, 2015 post where you asserted that "the least professional thing women can do is have long hair that they wear down". I thought that post was absurd when I read it some 14 months, and I still think it was and is absurd. I have long hair that I wear down, as do the majority of "professional" women that I know, most of whom are earning at least $200,000 per year, and some of whom are earning seven figures per year (which I mention just to cast doubt on the proposition that violating your hair rule has any material effect on career development).
Your present post rubbed me in the same way as the one from August 2015. According to the ordinary use of English words, leggings are
clearly pants, provided of course that the fabric is sufficiently thick (which is how most people demarcate "leggings" versus "tights", anyway; tights are thinner). The meme that "leggings are not pants" is not based on any common English meaning of the word "pants", nor is it based on a functional analysis of the garment in question; the tired refrain is merely a not-so-thinly-veiled attempt to regulate other women's bodies and to shame other women for not complying with the dictates of patriarchal rules that tell us that women are supposed to be dressed in certain ways in order to be "professional".
So, I reject your reminder. And I propose that you might want to reconsider whether your reminder served any purpose other than body shaming and reinforcing extant patriarchal narratives. My advice is to stop judging other women for how they present themselves.
Don't laugh. I pretty much had to write [that leggings are not pants] in a volunteer policy manual.
I would likely decline to volunteer anywhere with a manual containing such a policy, basically for the reasons given above. Volunteers are doing you and your organisation a favour, which is all the more reason to treat them with respect.