sexism

In 2023 I don’t need to talk about the multitude of reasons why girls should be allowed to wear trousers at school, do I? We all know by now that gendered uniform policies reinforce harmful stereotypes that affect future career choices. We’re well aware that they entrench the idea girls and boys are inherently different. It’s clear to us all that they have the potential to maximise conscious and unconscious bias in teachers, encourage gender-based attitudes among children, and normalise modesty as a value system to police girls’ bodies and behaviour. These were the findings of a 2021 government-commissioned report,…