Trade Union Congress to debate height of high heels in the work place
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5980306/High-heels-should-be-banned-...
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- emmaboswood
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The TUC (which is predominately made up of men) wants to ban high heels from the workplace, citing the dangers they pose to women who wear them on a day to day basis (short term injury from losing balance, long term foot and back pain). The motion to introduce a height limit to women's shoes in the workplace goes to debate next month.
There are social implications as well as medical ones. As Nadine Dorries (Tory MP) says: "I'm 5ft 3in and need every inch of my Christian Louboutin heels to look my male colleagues in the eye. If high heels were banned in Westminster, no one would be able to find me."
Slow month for the TUC? Or important medical and social issue? Or utterly pointless and somewhat patronising?
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MikeMartlet
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What man, real man that is not some alternative society excuse for a man, would want to stop women wearing high-heels for heaven's sake? There's quite a dearth of them as it is at the moment with all the childish ballerinas trotting about; we'll end up with a whole generation of women who've never learnt to walk in heels. One inch maximum these socialist pinkos want to make it, my lace-up oxfords have heels that are higher than that and they're classed as formal guys' shoes!
I'm not so sure that it is the men alone who are pushing this, I reckon some of the more extreme lesbian feminists and their 'stone ground muesli stripped pine sociology degree' sisters have put the Birkenstock in!
If 'normal' women want to wear heels at work, surely that's up to them isn't it? Who are they to tell women who may not even belong to a union and may have no intention of ever doing so how to live their lives? They at best represent their members and these are now a minority of the workforce! I have never belonged to any union other than the Students' Union when at University; nor has my wife who has a Master of Science Degree, is a qualified teacher and College Lecturer and always wears 2.5 to 4 inch heels at work all day, - and always has done. I teach Business at University and many of my female fellow academics also wear heels as do some of the female students. Before becoming a University Lecturer, I worked in commerce as a senior manager and director and most of the women wore heels including my female fellow directors. These are all intelligent highly educated women It is their choice; I fail to see how it is demeaning!
Yet again those with a little extra education and slightly above average intelligence try to tell everyone else how to live their lives based upon some half-baked notions. Instead of protecting individuals' rights they now wish for us all to conform to their own vision, because "you'll see, - we'll all like it really"!
But out TUC and campaign for something that many highly qualified Baby-boomers want, - an end to enforced retirement in the UK at 65!
Mike Martlet
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MikeMartlet
