[Gendergap] Hairdresser, hairstylist...barber?

[Fred Bauder]

> I searched for "hairdresser" and was directed to barber.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairdresser
>
> Kind of interesting, that it directs to barber and then discusses male
> barbers and men's haircutting culture.
>
> Surely I can't be the only person who finds this odd...
>
> Really needs some gender neutrality... Cosmetology is the closest thing
> to
> any article that discusses "hairdressers" "hair stylists" and it's
> basically
> a paragraph.
>
> Just surprises me..no "hairstylists" content on Wikipedia. If I am
> missing
> something, or passing over it, please correct me! Another example on the
> struggles we have here...  (for example, the hair stylist Frederic Fekkai
> links to barber....and he's an icon of women's hair styling and is
> considered a "hairdresser" or stylist)
>
> -Sarah

Actually, it's not as bad as you think. No one has written a good
hairdressers article. What we have is at Beauty salon, which has little
about beauty shop culture. What is needed is a several good articles:
probably hairdressing, beauty shop, and beauty salon.

Fred