In her recent article, Isabella Kwani reports that girls at public school in Western Australia will no longer be denied the right to wear pants and shorts to class. This revision to the school dress code has been prompted by a complaint issued by an 11-year-old student, who claims that wearing skirts restricts their movement and inhibits them from participating in sports that their male counterparts can take pleasure in. Furthermore, the article addresses the dangerous stereotypes that are covertly implicated within school dress codes. The article highlights that this leaves girls believing that they cannot do what boys can, instilling into them the notion that they are, for some inexplicable reason, inferior to the boys. The article proceeds
