We tell women to cover themselves from the male gaze, but we neglect to tell the boys to look at something else. That this has a sexist undertone is demonstrated by the fact that the girls who had more curves to show off were the ones more often disciplined. Sign up to receive the latest career, relationship and wellness advice to enrich your life. Please enter a valid email address.
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Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. Are uniforms the answer? Many teens including myself when I was in high school would argue that a uniform would prevent them from expressing their identity through their clothing when forging their individuality in middle school and high school is hard enough. And sometimes schools can take uniformity too far, as with the girl in Colorado who was banned from classes this week after shaving her head to support a friend going through chemotherapy: she was told she violated dress code.
Could the answer be single-sex schools? Distractions from the other sex are a key reason many parents opt into same-sex education for their developing teens.
