The author described the current situation ( The Professional Beauty Qualification (27)), provided historical background for its inception ( The Background of the PBQ (31)), supported her point of view with the court trials data ( The Law Upholds the Beauty Backlash (37)), proposed a solution, and made some prognosis ( The Social Consequence of the PBQ (48)). The chapter has four named subparagraphs, placed with the logical order, which makes the text easier and comprehensible for readers. Wolf’s book, in particular, chapter Work has a well-organized structure. It could be stated that the primary purpose of feministic journalists and writers is to reach all women and first of all women with middle and low income as the most vulnerable class (Mann 61). It represents the common for the writers of the third wave feminism tendency to simplify their writing, make it less academic and more comprehensible for women from different social classes with the different level of education. The Beauty Myth was written by the woman and for women.
To resist the beauty myth, women should understand their value as workers, as personalities, not just pretty dolls (55–57). Women’s self-estimation and self-consciousness are also important. At the end of the chapter, Wolf proposed the possible solution for the problem: women should consolidate and continue to fight with the current situation. The author stated that this problem would exist until women continue under-estimate themselves, trying to match artificial standards, created by popular women magazines and television (42). To be successful, women should spend the huge amount of money on cosmetics, skin-care products, clothes, and even plastic surgery (52-53). According to Wolf, women reach the particular age and then just disappear from such job positions as TV commentator, stewardess, waitress, and others (35).
Thus, an employer could refuse to hire a woman or even fire her, relying on his notion of beauty (33). Wolf pointed out that a lot of jobs are inapproachable for women, who are not beautiful, but, actually, there are no existing beauty standards.
Moreover, the higher her holding post, the stricter demands to her appearance, figure, and style of clothes. According to the author’s point of view, confirmed by the statistics, literature and evidence analysis, to get a job woman must match to the particular standards of the beauty. In the chapter Work, Wolf described current situation with the dependence of women’s employment on their appearance.
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