Women’s fight to wear the trousers continues in Ireland’s education system

Pupils at all-girls Dublin secondary school, Maryfield College, in Drumcondra, are campaigning to have the option of wearing trousers as part of their uniform, reveals how gendered clothing ideals still persist. Spurred on by the experience of sitting in freezing Covid classrooms and the fact that LGBT students weren’t best served by the fatwa on trousers, their #whowearsthetrousers campaign was initiated with hopes of ending discriminatory “skirts only” uniform policies in Irish schools. Twenty years...