Sunday, December 18, 2005

Women's Issues: Judge warns women who dress "immodestly"

Garfield Myers, writing in the Jamaica Observer, has an article on Judge Paulette Williams, who has warned that women who dress immodestly run the risk of being adversely perceived by others, not least courtroom jurors.

At a recent fundraising dinner Justice Williams, also argued that "current forms of dress among young people and popular music which glorified sex and violence reflected a decline in society's standards from decades ago, when for example, children learnt uplifting memory gems in school".

Full article: Judge warns women who dress immodestly by Garfield Myers