WE'RE always told we live in a world where women are given short shrift, and to an extent, that's probably true.

But there's one area where men have drawn the short straw, and that's office wear. In short, why can't men who work in offices wear shorts to work?

I've written briefly about this issue once before and noted that we blokes have been short-changed by the short-fused fashionistas who dictate acceptable office attire.

Why can women in even the most respected professions wear skirts while men who work indoors are forced to cover our deliciously sinewy thighs and calves?

Said it before and I'll say it again. It is bare-legged hypocrisy.

With a heatwave descending on the southern half of the country this week, it's time to address this major shortfall in equality. At least in the short-term.

The long and the short of this issue is that men should be allowed to wear shorts to work. And that's why, in a rare excursion into something approaching real journalism, I contacted two prominent fashion editors today.

You won't believe how short-sighted they were on this issue. Both of them laughed at me and said you couldn't take a man seriously if he was a dentist or a lawyer in shorts.

"What next?" one of them gasped. "Low slung singlets? Mandals? Where does it end?"

I'll tell you where it ends, ladies. It ends at the knees. Nobody's asking to go all Warwick Capper, circa 1985. We know that some shorts have their shortcomings.

All we, the men of Australia, ask is to be able to wear tasteful knee-length shorts to work in summer.

And that's the long and the short of it. We're keeping this rant short-winded. We know many of you have short attention spans.

The only short point we'd add is that it's a disgrace that PM Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten haven't weighed in.

That's why we welcome your thoughts on this issue. Keep your comments short, and we'll upload them as shortly as possible.