Nicola Thorp, a temp reporting for her first day of work at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London, set off an online debate over high heels this week, after she said she was sent home for showing up to work in flat shoes instead of high heels.

“The supervisor told me that I would be sent home without pay unless I went to the shop and bought a pair of two to four-inch heels. …When I pointed out that my male colleague was allowed to work in flat shoes, and that I felt that I was being discriminated against, I was laughed at.”

It’s legal to make women wear heels to work—but then you should require the same of men — Quartz

hmmm