Swedish male train drivers wear skirts to work

Comments Zoom Swedish train driver Martin Akersten poses wearing a skirt in Stockholm. Akersten says he and more than a dozen other drivers and conductors at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company's uniform policy, which doesn't allow shorts. (Associated Press) Stockholm — Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work. Train driver Martin Akersten says he and more than a dozen others at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company's uniform policy, which...