I have written a few blogs about the different ways men and women are treated in the workplace. My last blog on this topic discussed a study which found that women are much more likely to receive workplace reviews which contain some kind of personality criticism, such as comments that the woman was “abrasive,” “judgmental” or “strident.” Therefore, it would not be unexpected that I found the following news story both interesting and foreseeable.

An Australian newscaster, Karl Stefanovic, became frustrated with the appearance-based criticisms viewers regularly emailed, tweeted, and wrote to his female co-newscaster, Lisa Wilkinson. In response, Stefranovic secretly decided he would conduct an experiment. He wore the same blue suit on air every day for a year.

Nobody noticed. Nobody said a thing, including the staff and producers at the television station. Not one fan sent a letter, not one article was published, nor was there any comment on social media. The only comment was from Stefanovic, whom after a year of wearing the same blue suit on the air for a year, said the following:

No one has noticed; no one gives a s**t. But women, they wear the wrong color and they get pulled up. They say the wrong thing and there's thousands of tweets written about them. Women are judged much more harshly and keenly for what they do, what they say and what they wear.

I've worn the same suit on air for a year-except for a couple of times because of circumstance - to make a point. I'm judged on my interviews, my appalling sense of humor – on how I do my job, basically. Whereas women are quite often judged on what they're wearing or how their hair is ... that's [what I wanted to test].

In a world where the press is still discussing Hillary Clinton’s fondness for wearing pantsuits, what Amal Clooney wore on the red carpet instead of  her incredible professional accomplishments, and the fact that Michelle Obama wore the same suit during her husband’s delivery of the State of the Union that Julianna Margulies wore on “The Good Wife,”  can we call the results of Steanovic’s experiment anything other than foreseeable? Could we even imagine Savannah Guthrie wearing the same outfit two days in a row on the Today Show?