The Sexism Of School Dress Codes

Li Zhou, The Atlantic: Education
Tue, 10/20/2015 - 11:47am

The Sexism of School Dress Codes

Alfaguarilla / Shutterstock Maggie Sunseri was a middle-school student in Versailles, Kentucky, when she first noticed a major difference in the way her school’s dress code treated males and females. Girls were disciplined disproportionately, she says, a trend she’s seen continue over the years. At first Sunseri simply found this disparity unfair, but upon realizing administrators’ troubling rationale behind the dress code—that certain articles of girls’ attire should be prohibited because they “distract” boys—she decided to take action.

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