Dress Codes In Australia Essay

To begin with the article from, “ New York Times” titled “Some Australian Girls Can Now Wear Pants to School.” written by Isabella Kwai. The main Idea in this article is about how in Australia the dress code for the female students is only to wear skirts and the schools have many complaints of the dress code. After many complaints after the female dress code a student who is a mother of an 11 year old, Sofia wrote to the state’s education minister, looking for a change. The dress code for the girls made it hard to “do many activities” was stated by Sofia. The boys are allowed to use shorts and pants but the only thing the girls can wear are skirts. One of the state’s education minister, Ms, Ellery had a meeting with Sofia’s Mother, Ms. Myhre’s, she asked the department if the policy was nondiscriminatory. If there was a change in the school dress code …show more content…
Also Principal Henderson, (Principal of a Catholic private school) stated that they were introducing trousers into the female's dress code in the following school year, but the stand was taken because of the students, parents, and employees. The uniform dress code was unclear and 70% of the high school mandate the female students to wear skirts, even in the winter, only a couple of schools had exceptions! Such as, what many school administrators are worried about is the bullying that the new dress code could cause. For example the author states that there was one time where a girl who was wearing shorts was told the she couldn't use the girls restroom because she was dressed as a boy. The girls are stereotyped by having to just sit there and look pretty, while the boys get to do crazy activities and sports and many more, while girls can do that because the dress code makes it nearly impossible to do the same things as the boys. A study that was