A scarf around the neck has no place in a shop with spinning motors, spindles and cutter heads, nor has long hanging hair. Either one can catch in machinery with deadly, or at least gruesome, injuries happening in a fraction of a second. This is not "sexism", since clothing, hair, and dangling jewelry on either sex can have equally deadly results. That scarf on the young woman, for instance, could be yanked around the cutter head of the jointer machine she appears to be using, causing near instant strangulation.  That is how Isadora Duncan died, when her scarf became wrapped around the axle of the roadster she rode in.