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Does anyone know how to find out about laws concerning male length of hair in the workplace. I personally think that it is discrimination to allow a woman to wear her hair long when her male conterpart cannot. I heard there was a federal law against an employer requiring a male employee to cut his hair to a post WWII era style unless it posed a safety or health risk. Are there any long haired lawyers listening.
At the moment, for the most part, we do not have legal protection as employees, though we do in some other capacities. Quite a few states do not allow discrimination against public school students. And California's Unruh Act, for example, has been interpreted in a way that would probably protect our rights as customers. That very act also covers employment, but to date in that arena it has not been extended to us, to my knowledge.
When we are harassed for our hair length and women are not, of course it is sex discrimination. So is the law that women must wear shirts but men need not. And any grade school kid can read the Constitution and see that gun control and the military draft would be unconstitutional. But judges read the law the way they want, if they think they can get away with it, and for the moment we are a small enough minority with so little support that they feel they can.
In the present legal climate, the best bet for all but the most rabid activists among us is to maneuver around any roadblocks rather than try to fight them head on.
Keep the faith, and keep it long!
Bill