'I am not the hostess Barbie', women pressure Iberia to end heels

• heels vs.

  sneakers, not just a matter of style... at work

"Seriously, male flight deck crews are going to be walking around in flat

while we're having to tear our feet apart?"

This is the question that opens one of the latest

on Change.org, the one that an

stewardess has started to demand that the company put an end once and for all to a rule that it considers

, the one that forces women to Wear heels during your workday.

"We are in 2022. Enough of

," María Fernández, an Iberia stewardess for 30 years, asks on the platform.

"We are going to tell the companies that it is useless to congratulate their employees on March 8 while they implement

that discriminate against us for being women," she warns.

As explained in the

that it has opened on Change.org, the company has just presented its new standards and uniforms, some that boast of being modern because they finally allow wearing

.

But... they will only be able to put them on from the moment of takeoff to landing, "not during the greetings to the passengers, neither in the baggage controls nor in the embarkations nor, worse, in the very long roads traveling

in the airports.. . not there. There we will continue to be forced to wear

, "explains this cabin crew.

"I'm an afazata, not a

," she claims.

"And this

has to be known, only then will we be in time to avoid it."

The move has angered the stewardess because her male companions can wear comfortable moccasins at all times.

"Obviously, I

colleagues who are comfortable in these heels and even in higher heels, but that option should be a

, not an imposition," she explains in her request.

right to choose

And that is precisely what

is demanding with this collection of signatures: that before the new

come into force , on June 1, the company modifies it so that women can choose.

So far, his petition has been signed by more than 27,600 people.

"We have two months to ask Iberia to

it and let us choose between the flat or the

," says María Fernández, encouraging her colleagues to support her.

It is not the first time that the courts have agreed with women when they denounce this type of situation.

As the stewardess recalls, both the

and the

have ruled that forcing female workers to wear

different from those worn by male workers of the same category and activity "has no objective

and is contrary to the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of sex.

Once again, the battle against

is served.

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