A disturbing new study claims that men like women wearing high heels because it 'signals they are ready for sex'. Its authors have been slammed by equality campaigner Nicola Thorp who said their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: The paper detailing the experiments cited in this post was retracted in October 2019.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 ...

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It’s complicated. Let me explain the minefield of dilemmas Why do tall women wear high heels? PM, Lord’s Cricket Ground Why does any woman wear high heels? As regular readers of this column will know, ...