Black girls are disciplined more harshly in school. Dress codes play a big role.

Black girls are often disciplined more harshly in school than their white peers, and dress codes seem to be part of the problem.

A new report from the National Women’s Law Center that looks at schools in Washington, DC, found dress codes to be unnecessarily strict and harmful to female students, and that black girls, in particular, are often reprimanded or punished for violating these rules.

DC public high schools frequently rely on gender-based stereotypes, framing girls’ dress code violations as being “unladylike,” “inappropriate…READ MORE