No leading lady worth that label in the golden age of Hollywood would have baulked at being described as “glamorous”.
But Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth were not slaving away in modern local authority offices, where, according to an employment tribunal judge, the term is “undermining” and “belittling”.
Indeed, the judge, Sophie Park, was brutal in a recent ruling, saying that “in a business context, [the tribunal] concluded that being described as glamorous is potentially inappropriate”.
The judge went on to say that “looked at objectively”, the word “could be taken as undermining or belittling the person being described, making them seem less serious and professional”.
At the centre of the debate about whether being described as glamorous was a compliment or a curse was
