Japanese women rebel against painful dress codes
Some employers care more about how they look than how they feel
ISHIKAWA YUMI worked eight-hour shifts as an usher in a funeral parlour, always in heels. Her employer insisted. Her toes bled. “Why do we have to hurt our feet at work, when men can wear flat shoes?” she complained on Twitter. The tweet exploded.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Heels at high water”
Asia April 11th 2020
- Not even Singapore has been able to avoid a lockdown
- Uzbekistan is reforming its judicial system—up to a point
- With the world distracted, China intimidates Taiwan
- Japanese women rebel against painful dress codes
- An Australian court overturns a cardinal’s conviction for sexual abuse
- South Korea presses on with an election
- The eternal, fanciful allure of the South Pacific
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