Is it unreasonable for a schoolTo insist boys have short hair but not girls?

[Ilovemyself]

Don't want to hijack the other hair threat so started this.

What makes it acceptable for some schools to have uniform rules stating boys hair should be a set length ( collar seeming to be the most popular) when girls can have it whatever length they like?

Stdg. So the character traits of a long haired male don't fit. Talk about a wild generalisation.

Also, maybe by actually taking a "risk" by employing said person the firm may find that their clients either like the person or do not have a problem with long hair.

Also, it may actually change peoples opinion.

Yes. Though DS2 flouts the equality thing because tying his hair back is never going to happen.

Similarly, DH maintains that he'll wear a tie at work if women have to.

I was saying that they might not fit, not that they definitely didn't - I was theorising. Actually I agree with what you are saying - I know that ds1 is the same person, who knows the same stuff, regardless of the length of his hair - I was just trying to see the other side.

At my school they decided that boys could grow their hair after a big kick off about it. But ponytails on boys were forbidden so by growing their hair they effectively banned themselves from many lessons where hair had to be tied back such as science as the school would not bend the rules there. There were lots of rather arbitrary rules really. Girls couldn't wear trousers, tights were banned in lower school and track suit bottoms for PE had to be worn under a PE skirt. It's all been overturned now, they could never get away with it I'm guessing.

To be bluntly honest Mrs H doesn't actually know for sure that her firm's clients don't like long hair, etc. It's an assumption her firm have made from the POV of being very traditional.

Short hair may be traditional now for males, but long hair was the norm for centuries. And just because something is traditional, that doesn't make it right.

I frequently lust after a man with long hair, btw. And get that lust satisfied.

He's a software developer. Highly skilled role. No one bats an eyelid.

And curiously enough, we shop at a certain M&S food hall most Saturday mornings. He's not the only beardy guy with long hair there, most weeks. It's hardly a look that condemns a man to poverty.

And don't judges wear those silly long, curly wigs? :o