What is correct attire?
The crop top or short tee-shirt, the garment of scandal.
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By: Emmanuelle Bastide
2 min
Skirt too short, "crop top", neckline too plunging for girls, hood, or cap for boys: what is a correct outfit?
Are women discriminated against and men freer to dress as they wish?
Should certain outfits be banned at work or at school?
At the risk of a wave of high school protests on the internet, as in September 2020, in France with # monday14septembre?
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With:
Gabrielle Richard
, gender sociologist, researcher associated with
the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Transformations of Educational Practices and Social Practices (LIRTES) at the University of Paris-Est Créteil
and at the
Research Chair on Homophobia at the University of Quebec to Montreal
Yves-Laurent Goma
, RFI correspondent in Gabon.
In February 2020, the dean of the
Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of the Omar Bongo University in Libreville
, Monique Mavoungou Bouyou invited the heads of departments to put an end to the “sartorial drifts” of the students.
A decision already applied in the Gabonese public administration.
We take a look back at these clothing requirements with our correspondent in Libreville.
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