Environmental Perspective: Education Unequal Dress Codes

Introduction Every day, thousands of girls are dress-coded in schools. However, teachers are more concerned about punishing the students with suspensions for breaking the dress code than maintaining a better learning environment (Ramsey 00:03:21-00:03:34). Around the world, dress codes have been known to be more discriminatory against females. For example, many school dress codes have rules directed against girls, like banning spaghetti strap tops or crop tops. Over time, students have noticed that only girls tend to wear attire like spaghetti strap tops, and those rules cannot apply to boys. On average, most dress code violations were for girls. Most schools preach a safe learning environment, but by continuing with these rules, they are increasing the hypocrisy

To explain, these unfair dress codes can create the impression that females can be sexualized and that males are easily distracted by a female's choice of clothing (Nguyen). Considering how many people are affected by the unequal dress codes, schools and companies should start implementing a dress code that is less targeted but still maintains a safe learning and working environment. Environmental Perspective: Education Unequal dress codes are a popular issue in schools, considering what is portrayed in many films. Most complaints about dress codes happen in an educational environment and by students hoping to wear what they choose. By enforcing a stricter dress code for girls, schools create a hostile and biased environment. Even though the dress code is perceived to help make the school a learning environment, it can cause more harm than good (Nguyen). Those strict dress codes may target groups of people, make them feel disempowered, and create an opposing environment for them. It takes away the idea of having individuality and being able to express their