Daniel_Breslauer: youre proof that a single girl must keep her hair short is: “Go ask some Beis Yaakov girls anywhere around the chareidi areas of Jerusalem on how to keep your hair: they’ll tell you.”
wow! that is your version of halacha?
ask a girl! that is teh most absird, most idiotic thing i have ever read on this site. there is NO HALCHIC BASIS for having short hair. maybe some rabbonim, and that is some, feel it should be that way, but not all. and if it anything, it would be a midah tovah at most, nowhere near halachic mandate. just as satmars shaving a married womens hair is not halacha. fo whatever you think is the norm, and what is considered halacha, there will be some group who thinks you are wrong, and even stricter things are halach, and you are all wrong. halacha is decided al pi gemora, whic we no longer really do, so we have to pasken from achronim. and noone says a girls hair has to be short.
as for staying in the house, this no longer applies, as society has changed. that was never said in halchic terms, it was explaining a pasuk. how is a women regal, by staying home, because regal women stayed home. even then, women worked fields. it is very well known that even in the time of the gemoro women worked. just not like now, usually in family owned businesses. many tannaim and amoroims wives worked. the gemora is filled with stories, including reb akivas wife. nowadays, very few women stay home, and society actually frowns upon it in a way. you people are taking a gemora that explains how to be mekayim the posuk, and using it for a society 2 thousand years after. that is sheer stupidity. yes, its technically still applicable, but to say its halchic is nonsense.