I often find it helpful to go deeper into issues such as separate dress codes for women and men, including religious dress codes. For instance, why is it almost always the case (the Sikhs being the exception) that the women's dress code is so much more likely to cause discomfort, limit movement, cause over-heating in hot weather and so on. And what do the various holy books say about all these issues?

The Quran, for example, says very little about how Muslim women and men should dress, and depending on the scholar one reads it could even be argued that the only rule for women is to dress modestly. The question, then, is who it is who decides what modesty in women's dress means, and the answer to that has been that it would have been religious men who did that deciding.

The same is true of other religions. In general, women's behavior and dress is always more regulated than men's behavior and dress. But then all those rules were created centuries ago and at least some scholars argue that what 'modesty' means today is not the same thing as its meaning a thousand years ago, and that the concept can be updated.

And of course it is true that women here are also told to dress a certain way. Popular culture teaches young girls that they should be as sexy as possible, for instance, even if that dress puts them at risk or endangers their health (in, say, wearing such high heels that your back suffers while also making it harder for you to run away to avoid danger). But some cultures decree women's dress by law and punish those who deviate from the code, others use persuasion, often in the opposite direction. The former case is obviously worse, but both might be good to investigate more.