It turns out that school dress code policies—which prohibit harmless black cultural signifiers and draw attention and shame to individual body parts—make school disproportionately difficult for black girls. Imagine that!
When 26-year-old Eliza Vincz rolled up to the Metropolitan Museum of Art decked out in her 18th century best, Met security guards were not having any of it.
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In the age-old debate over whether boys go to Jupiter to get more stupider, whilst girls go to college to get more knowledge, warring boy-girl bathroom notes have sparked newsworthy discourse in a Canadian high school.
On Friday, the state attorney general of Massachusetts ordered the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, located in the city of Malden, to end its punitive ban on hair extensions, a racist policy that disproportionately targets black and biracial students. The AG found the policy to be discriminatory and unevenly…
CLEVELAND — Donald Trump’s noted disdain for members of the press, particularly those of us who happen to be women, has apparently inspired a dress code for woman journalists at the Republican National Convention. Jezebel has learned that at least one woman journalist covering the convention was warned by an RNC…
You will never guess which political party he belongs to!
If you assumed there was some kind of underground society of female meteorologists scheming to make all forecasts look exactly the same, you would be right.
“Stand up straight,” I tell my daughter, for the tenth time in an hour. I notice when she rolls her eyes. By the time she’s staring straight ahead again, I have seen myself reflected entirely in her behavior at her exact age of 14. I’ve heard the echoes of my mother instructing me to stop slouching, to stand up…
An Iowa Catholic high school just released the dress code for their end of year "scholastic achievement" assembly, and you'll be shocked to learn that it's a tad sexist! The boys of Dowling Catholic School can celebrate their scholastic achievments by being "classy" and removing their facial hair; the girls, though,…
Visual material can be really helpful in the classroom. For example the "Carol never wore safety goggles" poster worked for decades. Most of my understanding from science comes from Bill Nye The Science Guy videos. But when it comes to talking to students about a dress code, maybe don't show them a film about a…
It's only been two weeks since school started at Tottenville High School in Staten Island and already, some 200 students, mostly girls, at a Staten Island high school have been sent to detention over various dress code violations. And now the students intend to fight back.
There are people out there — fancy, elegant people — who strongly argue the case for dressing nicely on airplanes."The plane is not your living room," they say. "Dressing well around other people is a show of respect so why not put in a little effort when you travel?" The answer is easy: Because I don't want to and…
Every six months or so, some dusty old fuddy duddy writes something truly idiotic about how female lawyers are too slutty or frumpy or, uh, female to be taken seriously, and how any glass ceiling that exists in the legal field is built out of trendy heels and fashionable blouses. Well, this time around, we've done it.…
After a North Carolina high school student was sent home in tears on the last day of her senior year for wearing a floral dress that teachers said was a half-inch too short, her mom decided to stand up against the school's arbitrary dress codes by wearing the same outfit to the graduation ceremony days later.
Summer is a dangerous time. Murder spikes in America's cities, treacherous heat waves threaten the health of the elderly and underserved, and, most menacingly of all, women in sleeveless tops attempt, like slatterns, to enter Utah courtrooms as though their bare arms don't inspire violent lustful fantasies in all who…
It seems like you can't open a browser window nowadays without confronting news that another school or university is catching flack over a dress code singling women out. But is there a way for schools and universities to tell students how to dress without it coming across as sexist?
In news that shouldn't surprise anyone, the Utah school which claimed it photoshopped girls to show less skin in order to comply with the dress code allowed pictures of shirtless boys exposing their underwear in a previous yearbook.
A reader spotted this sign up at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Austin.
A district crackdown saw 20-30 students sent home for dress code violations in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador late last week. While both male and female students were asked to leave school, the vast majority of those punished were girls cited for wearing visible bra straps.
