The well-heeled Marilyn Monroe reportedly once said if you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world. The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to ...

In case you haven’t heard, high heels are tools of the devil (or patriarchy), engineered to destroy women’s health, hamper their movement and stoke their vanity. And if you don’t ditch them for flats ...

Maybe it's become a talking point among those in the women-empowerment racket, but I have a hard time understanding the notion that expensive, sky-high pumps boost a woman's confidence. Pain is not ...

More than one in 10 companies in Japan have formal regulations about the length of heeled shoes female workers are forced to wear, a new study has found. The research, carried out by the Japanese ...

Update, October 14, 2019: The research upon which this story was based has been retracted due to “methodological weaknesses and statistical errors.” Cue a collective sigh from women everywhere: a new ...

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