Management experts agree with Ms. Hollands that expectations for office behavior are changing, but they are concerned that her advice reinforces a longstanding double standard at work.
While some child welfare veterans praised the decision as the end of a longstanding double standard, others asked why Mr. Scoppetta had not acted sooner to fix city-run programs with management problems that were well known when he took office more than five years ago.
Re "Some 'Bullies' Seek Ways to Soften Up: Toughness Has Risks for Women Executives" (Business Day, Aug. 10): You note that management experts are concerned that the advice given by Jean A. Hollands, the founder of Bully Broads, an executive coaching service that encourages women to be more ladylike, "reinforces a longstanding double standard at work".
In addition, critics warn that American regulators have waived a longstanding safety standard for the pipelines that deliver the synthetic crude oil from Canada to refineries in the United States and have not required any specific emergency plans to deal with a spill, which even regulators acknowledge is a possibility.
Looking at how those listeners responded to the "JEFFERY" cover art makes clear a longstanding double standard: that women can openly wear men's clothes, as long as they don't go too far, but a man wearing a dress remains a social taboo.
As part of that settlement, Ikea agreed to sell only chests or drawers that meet the longstanding voluntary standard within Canada and the U.S. "The updated Ikea chests of drawers have been adapted in different ways in order to ensure compliance on all Ikea markets," a spokesperson for Ikea said in an emailed statement to HuffPost.
The emergence of S. aureus strains with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin, the longstanding gold standard for bone and joint infections, has complicated the clinical scenario.
Banks that did not apply longstanding credit standards to determine if borrowers could repay.
If Congress allows Donald Trump as president to flagrantly violate longstanding ethical standards, then we certainly can't expect anything better from cabinet nominees like Mnuchin and Puzder.
