{"id":780,"date":"2017-12-22T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/?p=780"},"modified":"2017-12-22T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:52:54","slug":"are-high-heels-on-shaky-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Are high heels on shaky ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-781\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-781 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podiatrycanada.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/loredana-moniz-shoe-closet-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/loredana-moniz-shoe-closet-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/loredana-moniz-shoe-closet-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/loredana-moniz-shoe-closet.jpeg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loredana Moniz, whose shoe closet is shown here, considers her high heels an essential part of her everyday wardrobe and says she hasn&#8217;t suffered any health complications. (Loredana Moniz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the CBC news article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Originally more for men, high heels are now seen by some as a symbol of gender discrimination<\/p>\n<p>Loredana Moniz has 120 pairs of heels. The 48-year-old hairdresser is on her feet up to 14 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People say, &#8216;Are you kidding me \u2014 you wear those to work?'&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I say yes, I&#8217;m comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So comfortable, Moniz, of Brampton, Ont., says she even wears them at home, noting she also likes the extra height they give her and considers them a fashion necessity.<\/p>\n<p>While Moniz won&#8217;t be kicking her heels off anytime soon, there is a movement afoot to free women of the shoes experts have long warned can inflict harmful health consequences and that, in the current political climate, some have come to see as a symbol of gender discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The movement is making strides with some provincial governments in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario recently passed the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which includes a ban on employers forcing their female workers to wear high heels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at the link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/high-heels-health-and-popularity-1.4458020\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/high-heels-health-and-popularity-1.4458020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CBC news article: Originally more for men, high heels are now seen by some as a symbol of gender discrimination Loredana Moniz has 120 pairs of heels. The 48-year-old hairdresser is on her feet up to 14 hours a day. &#8220;People say, &#8216;Are you kidding me \u2014 you wear those to work?&#8217;&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I say yes, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[39,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpma.thedev.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}