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Israeli protesters don’t skirt the issue
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A few dozen Israeli lawmakers and their aides protested outside the parliament building yesterday after female staffers were denied entry for wearing skirts deemed too short.
At least 15 female legislative assistants were not allowed into the Knesset because of their dress, said Asaf Goldfarb of the Israeli legislative assistants’ union.
They came to work wearing dresses and skirts, a couple of them quite short, to protest similar entry refusals that have taken place in recent weeks. Goldfarb said a Knesset representative told protesters that dresses in parliament must be no more than 5 centimeters above the knee.
“The concentration on what women are wearing is completely ridiculous,” said Liron Shalish, a legislative assistant, who was stopped at the entrance to the Knesset wearing a dress she said reached just above her knees. It was the same dress she wore to parliament a few months ago for her job interview.
Knesset spokesman Yotam Yakir said the parliament dress code forbade visitors and staffers from wearing torn clothing, shirts with political slogans, crop tops, sandals, shorts, and “too short skirts.” He added only “a few” female legislative assistants were asked to change their clothing yesterday and all were let into parliament by the afternoon.
He called the protest a “provocation,” saying the Knesset enforced its dress code equally with men and women, and that it was more relaxed than rules enforced at other parliaments.
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