Simple answer is a student Pand C. Enter Democracy.
Students should be encouraged to raise complaints about their environment.
There is a good reason to maintain all-girls schooling, to alleviate pressure on girls during their developmental stages.

oh the deprivations of the the private school system, how ever did you bare it.
The cravat the boys had to wear during the cross country run was an awful colour.

Dan must be an ex public servant who still clings to the stupid abbreviations that slow communications. Cobber is being smart lol!
At least she could not blame men as women are the majority in education. So Evelyn you are a big girl now, deep breaths and actually do something! Go to your old school and explain your issues and argue the case with the other big girls. Then you can all agree it is really the fault of men lol.

"It starts at primary school, with the uniforms spelling out the inequity – boys get to wear practical shorts and tops that are easy to move in, girls get dresses that curb their physical activity."

Confucius say "Girl with dress up run faster than boy with pants down."
David

Why the false dichotomy? Gender neutral uniforms are to the only alternative to badly designed girls' uniforms.

And does any school still have such ridiculously strict standards for uniforms (whether badly designed or not)?

It really is an indictment of our society that people like Evelyn have so little of interest or importance in their lives that they have to invent such meaningless problems, to make their lives interesting & give themselves some importance in the scheme of things. It is an indictment of academia that people are paid good taxpayer money while producing such garbage.

If a sedentary life at a university is not exciting enough, or offer enough stimulus for her, I suggest she join the British army as an infantry soldier. This should relieve her boredom, & if deployed overseas, something real to worry about.

Bits of bumph like this certainly confirms the stupidity of the publish or perish problem that has engulfed academia in recent decades.

What a load of rot. The only girls required to wear drack dresses are those who attend private schools. They attend private schools for better education, and abide by the rules. They have ample opportunity to show as much as they legally can at weekends, evenings, and for the rest of their lives after a few short years at school. School children of both sexes go to school to learn, except those unfortunates who have to attend Socialist State schools, where the dress code is as loose as the educational one.

Och aye the noo Lassie, if Lads can wearrrr kilts! Then the bonnie wee Lassies can wearrr troosers, d'ye no ken the noo? And then let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low!
Alan B.

Not enough across current rules in schools to know what's still an issue. I get the impression that girls at local state/high schools have a choice between skirts or shorts (guessing the boys don't get that choice). I see older private school boys in uniforms that involve long pants, ties and sometimes blazers. All nice additions to Queensland's warmer months.

The author appears to be strongly focussed on the gender inequity. I wonder if the difference in requirements for office attire in most offices rate the same concerns where exposed legs on males are a no-no. In the more formal office ties are a requirement for males (admittedly heels for women in some offices but my impression is that is very rare now).

Happy to see gendered rules removed, just not so thrilled when the issue is played as a male privilege thing ignoring the inconvenient parts.

R0bert

Hasbeen. Following on from your eminently sensible suggestion that the author join the British army, might I suggest a Scottish regiment like the Black Watch? Then she can wear those awful, 'regulation' dresses.
There MUST be something of greater import to whine/whinge about surely?

one day thick feminist will get into their head that boys and girls are different. Different does not have to mean better. It would be good if boys and girls wore comfortable neat clothes in line with how they are designed. With many silly women still wearing ridicously uncomfortable high heels it makes you wonder where the role models will come from.

Partly because of horrible memories of school uniforms, I sent my sons to a high school that didn't have a uniform (well, to be fair, that wasn't the only reason). Hey, you Brisbanites, this was Indooroopilly High - the only school in the state (as far as I know) that rebels against the tyranny of uniforms!

Even so, the student dress-code democracy was ruthless. Anyone who dressed to give themselves airs was immediately ostracised. Plain old sensible fashion ruled - for both boys and girls.

Goes to prove that Leftie Identity Politics (LIP) is nothing but thinly disguised nothin' to complain about. Next it will be that air-con is sexist, oops been done; how about daylight saving?

Women sleep in much more than men (not many female garbos, patriarchy again) hence daylight saving only benefits men and must be reversed!

My daughter never once complained about wearing a smock as a uniform.

For sports they always wore shorts.