Taipei Times
Date: Jul 23, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA

New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School male students in skirts and shorts pose for a

photograph on campus in New Taipei City on May 11.

Photo courtesy of the Students Association of New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School

Male students at New Taipei Municipal Banqiao Senior High School will be allowed to wear skirts to school, starting with the new semester in September, in a bid to promote gender equality, the school’s management said yesterday.

The school board last month scrapped a dress code regulation, which stipulated that male students can only wear trousers to school, student affairs division head Lin San-wei (林三維) said.

The move allows male students to wear skirts to school should they choose to without risking punishment, he said.

Female students can continue to wear skirts or trousers to school, he added.    [FULL  STORY]