A young muslim woman in the UK has just been awarded $6000 for being told she had to wear a figure hugging dress to wait in an English bar over summer when the men were not asked to change their uniforms for summer and were able to dress modestly in dark clothes. It was determined the insistence that the women comply with the bar\u2019s \u201cdress code\u201d was \u201cgender specific\u201d and \u201chostile\u201d. However the article also made mention of a photo taken of the smiling claimant in a \u201crevealing white top\u201d on social networking website Facebook. The clear implication was that the case may have smacked of double standards and opportunism. What are your thoughts? Did the bar violate her dignity and create a \u201chumiliating\u201d environment? Does she have the right to object about the uniform yet choose in her own time to dress according to her own choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A young muslim woman in the UK has just been awarded $6000 for being told she had to wear a figure hugging dress to wait in an English bar over summer when the men were not asked to change their uniforms for summer and were able to dress modestly in dark clothes. It was determined the insistence that the women … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-discrimination","category-workplace-justice","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t