MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A proposal to allow children in Mexico City to decide whether to wear skirts or trousers to school has caused a swirl of controversy in a country long regarded as a bastion of Roman Catholic family values. Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico City's new leftist mayor, unveiled the "gender-neutral uniform" initiative on Monday to promote gender equality in schools. "The era when girls had to wear a skirt and boys had to wear trousers is behind us, I think it's passed into history," Sheinbaum told a news conference. "Boys can wear skirts if they want, and girls can wear pants if they want." Many social media users defended a more flexible dress code, arguing that school girls for years had to wear skirts in Mexico, where women secured the right to vote in 1953.

Source: The Star June 04, 2019 20:15 UTC