Why don’t women’s pants have pockets?
4 min readAug 5, 2019
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Throughout history, women’s pockets have been associated with periods of progress in women’s rights and with greater gender equality.
There are few things more frustrating than putting on a pair of pants and finding that they have unusable, tiny pockets.
Some brands even sew pants pockets shut or just put in fake pockets (why?!?). A survey of 80 pairs of men’s and women’s pants found that on average, the pockets in women’s jeans are 48% shorter and 6.5% narrower…