A former director at a global pharmaceutical company has told how she was scrutinised “like an animal at a zoo” because of her natural hair, as a new report shows discrimination against Afro styles could cost people jobs.
This comes as ‘Workplace Hair Acceptance’, a new report by World Afro Day, has revealed that bias against Afro hair in the workplace is likely to cost jobs and suggested a “hierarchy of hairstyles” from more Eurocentric decreasing to Afrocentric styles is commonplace across offices.
