As offices around the United States adopt increasingly informal dress codes, fewer women are showing up to work in high heels than ever before. In fact, in 2016 the Wall Street Journal reported that ...

More than 19,000 people have signed a petition that would ban Japanese employers from requiring women to wear high heels in the workplace.

Editor's Note: The paper detailing the experiments cited in this post was retracted in October 2019. Women’s shoes come in a wide array of heel heights. Shoes with the highest spike heels have been ...

Is the high heel a tool of empowerment or a tool of the patriarchy designed to slow a woman down? This is a question that Antonia Saint Dunbar, a serial entrepreneur, asked herself back in 2014 while ...

When I brought my newborn home from the hospital, I picked out a special outfit for her, including tiny leather moccasins. My husband thought the shoes were a little silly, given that she wouldn’t be ...