At its conference, the TUC voted unanimously for the law to be changed so that women should not be "compelled to wear high heels at work”. A delegate at the conference suggested that Theresa May should now ditch her kitten heels and stylish shoes in support of this movement and to help the advancement of women in business.
Do you think the way that women dress is directly related to their performance? Are women still treated as adornments and not taken seriously? Is it intimidating for a man – or woman – to be faced with a woman who “power dresses”?
If women in business dressed like Boris Johnson and behaved in the same way would they be taken seriously?
Women have fought hard to achieve the status they have, is it now right that they should be asked to make a sacrifice in terms of their style of dress to further advance the cause of women?
Whilst it was clearly wrong of an employer to require a receptionist to wear high heels, surely we do not need to ask women who take a pride in their appearance and like wearing sassy footwear to ditch them for “sensible shoes”.