All the comments saying 'so what I couldn't wear jeans at school' are entirely missing the point of the thread. The *reason* that you couldn't wear jeans wasn't due to assertions from your school that they couldn't prevent you being sexually harassed or assaulted if you did. It would simply have been due to issues of 'smartness' which boys and girls *equally* would have had to abide by.

The slippery slope of forcing innocent girls to change their clothing (considering jeans are not exactly 'sexually provocative' items of clothing), instead of targeting male sexual harassment, means in the long term, virtually anything could be considered 'provocatory'. Including wearing your hair down, or showing your face - as indeed is now becoming more common for Muslim women, on campuses in UK.