Inaugurating a program to appoint a succession of female principal guest conductors, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra has named New Zealander Gemma New the first woman to hold the revived title.

The video, set to M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls," shows teenage girls wearing shorts in the school hallways and zooms in on their bare legs. The students are then punished by a teacher and forced to repeat "I will not wear athletic shorts." The video, which does not portray any boys breaking the dress code rules, was shown to nearly 3,000 students at Marcus High School Thursday, KXAS-TV (NBC 5) reported.

This month, while the nation's attention turned to the challenges women face in all kinds of workplaces, musicians and mentors once again gathered in Dallas to start solving one particular problem. For all the progress women have made professionally over the decades, they remain rarities in two high-profile positions: as conductors of symphony orchestras and opera companies. Among major American orchestras, only two have female music director