In other schools, including a fee-paying south Dublin girls’ school, initially trousers were seen as being for androgynous girls. “Requiring girls to wear skirts or boys to wear trousers is outdated and reinforces gender stereotypes”, and can be impractical. Girls having to wear skirts and boys having to wear trousers is an outdated concept we should have grown past.”Fanning went to Loreto Secondary School in Clonmel – all girls, all skirts. Is it legal to make girls wear skirts? So is it unequal treatment to require girls to wear skirts while boys can wear trousers to school?

Source: The Irish Times September 12, 2020 05:00 UTC