MANILA, Philippines — Female students will no longer be required to wear a skirt as school uniform if a bill lodged in the Senate is passed into law. Senator Raffy Tulfo recently filed Senate
Sen. Raffy Tulfo Senate PRIB file photo / Bibo Nueva España
The bill thus proposed that all schools, colleges, and universities should provide female students “a pants option for their uniform, in addition to the traditional skirt.” The senator lamented that for decades, skirts for women and trousers for men had been used as identifiers to differentiate the two genders from one another.
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