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To: eddie r gammon who wrote (77087)	11/26/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 86076

Women protest office dress code All workers at Milwaukee medical examiner forced to wear neckties Associated Press Friday, November 26, 1999 Milwaukee -- Two workers in the Milwaukee medical examiner's office have filed formal complaints about a policy requiring employees to wear neckties. That's all employees. Even women. Patricia Martin and Daphne Moutry-Allen told Wisconsin's Equal Rights Division they want to have the rule abolished and are seeking compensation for humiliation and discrimination. Both women have rejected settlement offers. "Obviously I am concerned about retaliation, but you get to the point where enough is enough," said Ms. Martin, a forensic investigator. "I don't need to look like a man to do my job." Their complaints are scheduled for a hearing Dec. 3 at the state office building in Milwaukee. The 1«-year-old rule came about after the men in the office filed a union grievance complaining it was unfair they had to wear ties on the job. They said ties can drape on a corpse while they work or could provide a way for distraught family members of the deceased to choke them. After an arbitrator sided with the men, medical examiner Jeffrey Jentzen ruled both genders would wear ties in the office. "If this prevails, what's next?" asked Jeff Hynes, Ms. Moutry-Allen's attorney. "Are women going to be required to wear wingtip shoes and suspenders?" Gender neutral does not mean mandating the same dress for men and women, said Ellen Bravo, a spokeswoman for the Milwaukee-based 9to5, National Association of Working Women. "It's ridiculous. Let's be honest," she said.