Individual competence is related with factors such as intelligence, responsibility, trustworthiness, authority, organization, time management, and interpersonal competence (Little & Roberts, 2012). The types of attire people wear at the business setting and their levels of job status cause others' different perceptions on those people's job competence. Women are more vulnerable to be judged if they are competent based on their working attires and the style of job than men. In our society, men's physical image evaluation is rated significantly less frequent than women because the clothing options for men are limited while women have more choices of what they chose to wear (Glick et al., 2005). Furthermore, according to Peluchette et al. (2006) women subconsciously preferred to dress more beautifully than men in all different occasions especially at work, they liked to spend money and time to make them look good, and they willing to spend more time and effort on "appearance labor" (p. 45). Therefore, the types of clothing that women wear have a great impact on determine their job competence than …show more content…
Job status was classified into two main branches, one of them was higher-level job such as executives or other managerial jobs; and the other one was lower-level or status job such as assistants or other less-skilled jobs (Glick et al., 2005). Jobs like managers, executives were traditionally viewed as more masculine, and female who had those types of higher level jobs would be perceived as more independent and knowledgeable; while women with jobs like assistants, secretaries those types of feminine jobs would be viewed as less intelligence or have fewer ability (Glick et al., 2005). In addition, the type of attire that women wore at business setting was rated as sexy or conservative. In a job recruitment setting, research showed that recruiters did not hire people based on their resume or interview performance, they chose or rated the applicants based on their physical appearance especially the types of clothing that applicants wore (Desrumaux, Bosscher, & Léoni, 2009). Meaning that women who wear conservative business attires are perceived as more capable and knowledge than women who wear sexy work