A North Carolina charter school’s requirement that girls wear skirts based on the view that they are “fragile vessels” deserving of “gentle” treatment by boys is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-6 that Charter Day School violated three female students’ equal protection rights by adopting the skirts policy based on gender stereotypes about the “proper place” for girls in society.The school implemented a dress code that its founder, businessman Baker Mitchell, in an email and testimony said would “preserve chivalry” and ensure girls are treated “courteously and more gently than boys.”
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