aggie Sunseri was a middle-school student in Versailles, Kentucky, when she first noticed a major difference in the way her school’s dress code treated males and females. Girls were disciplined disproportionately, she says, a trend she’s seen continue over the years. At first Sunseri simply found this disparity unfair, but upon realizing administrators’ troubling rationale behind the dress code—that certain articles of girls’ attire should be prohibited because they “distract” boys—she decided to take action. “I’ve never seen a boy called out for his attire even though they also break the rules,” says Sunseri, who last summer produced Shame: A Documentary on School Dress Code, a film featuring interviews with dozens of her classmates and her school principal, that explores the negative impact biased rules can have on girls’ confidence and sense of self. The documentary now has tens of thousands of YouTube views, while a post about the dress-code policy at her high school—Woodford County High—has been circulated more than 45,000 times on the Internet.
In most people’s eyes gender inequality is no longer an issue especially in school because it’s a thing of the past, but there are some things that we are so used to that we don’t think of them as being treated unequally to the other gender. Although it is true that we have made a lot of progress from the way…show more content… This has been an ongoing problem that has seen little progress.Gender inequality exists in schools, even when policies are written for all students. The ISD 2142 Dress and Appearance policy needs to be enforced so both male and female students are held to the same
