Dress Codes
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How parents of girls can help with shaming dress codes: Stress they're 'not responsible' for protecting sexual response of others
Tween and teen girls are often hit with dress code violations that can feel like shaming. Experts say it's OK for parents to empower their daughters to speak up.
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Restaurants under fire for discrimination re-examine dress code policies: 'We are disappointed in ourselves'
Restaurants are rethinking dress codes as some come under fire for discrimination.
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Students stage walkout to protest dress code ban on do-rags: 'They're trying to take away who we are'
One protester said the crackdown supports the "criminalization of black men on campus."
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Arkansas student starts dress code discrimination protest with #PassTheSkirt movement
A high schooler in Arkansas is fed up with dress code discrimination. And she's taking action.
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These 2018 dress code incidents had teen girls calling out sexism: We are not 'distractions'
Before sliding into 2019, Yahoo Lifestyle takes a quick look back at some of the year’s biggest stories, and what’s happened since, with Rewind 2018. If there’s one thing that will never go out of style for teen girls, it’s sexist dress codes. In Wisconsin, a girl was so shamed for wearing leggings — leggings! — that the ACLU stepped in.
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Students are banned from wearing 'anything with?RIP?on it' at this school in Florida
The letters RIP are not OK at a Jacksonville high school, according to students.
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These school districts are actually changing their dress codes in response to student complaints
Students successfully changed their school districts' dress codes to be less gender-biased.
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Walmart is letting its employees wear jeans — but the dress code change isn't as great as it may seem
The retail chain announced that some stores would be testing a revised uniform that allows for blue jeans, jeggings, chinos, skorts, and shirts of any solid color.
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Teens protest school dress code for the right to go braless
Teens in Quebec are decorating their clothing with yellow squares to protest their “restrictive and sexist” school dress code — with female students demanding to ditch their bras.
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Teen told to put Band-Aids on her niρρles so she wouldn't distract boys at school
“The dean told me it was to save myself from my own embarrassment," says Lizzie Martinez, 17. "If it truly was that, the students that were talking about me, that should have been addressed and not me.”
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How does a child's hairstyle interfere with education? Not the way most schools think.
Much the way schools in the 19th century forced Native American children to cut off their hair, schools in 2018 are sending boys home for wearing their hair long or in braids.
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Dad takes to Twitter to help teen daughter find a job after she's fired over her hair color
Joe Blakeney says his daughter Jess was recently fired from her job because of her colorful hair. So he decided to turn to social media in hopes of helping his daughter find a new job.
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Settled lawsuit allows NYPD officers to grow longer beards and wear turbans
“The reforms balance the operational needs of the police department with the religious beliefs and needs of officers,” said an NYC Law Department spokesman.
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D.C. restaurant revokes dress code after claims of racial discrimination
A Washington, D.C., man experienced the latest in a string of dress code policies that seem to be less about the clothing and more about skin color.
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This school has a brilliant solution to avoid dress code violations
At this Pennsylvania middle school, students who have clothing problems may be able to get appropriate clothes from the school itself.
