Can girls wear trousers to school?
In theory, yes. But it is currently up to individual schools to decide whether or not girls are allowed to wear trousers – or boys are allowed to wear earrings – in that school. The basic principle should be that, because trousers are conventional dress for girls, there is a strong argument that it would be unlawful sex discrimination to deny a girl the opportunity to wear smart trousers as an alternative to skirts as part of a uniform code. But so far, courts have not had to make a judgment on whether different school uniform regulations for boys and girls would be discriminatory under the Sex Discrimination Act. Find out about challenging a school uniform policy below.
