PARIS — The well-heeled Marilyn Monroe reportedly once said if you give a girl the right shoes, she can conquer the world. The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them ...

A French study is the first to investigate the effect of a woman’s shoe heels on men’s behavior. If it’s help a woman needs, maybe she should wear high heels. That’s the message from researchers after ...

Men respond differently to women in high heels. This could be because women behave differently when they're wearing heels. Women's rights advocates object to heels, but some say they empower women in ...

For much of their history high heels were seen as a marker of an epic masculinity. When you think of high heels, your first thoughts almost certainly center around women. But for much of their history ...

Editor's Note: The paper detailing the experiments cited in this post was retracted in October 2019. Women’s shoes come in a wide array of heel heights. Shoes with the highest spike heels have been ...

Some teetered and staggered, others stumbled and tripped, but more than forty men — all wearing high heels — raced, well, limped their way through a southwest Detroit neighborhood, part of a "Walk a ...

The human race has been wearing shoes for a long time, so it's no surprise that the designs for shoes throughout history have been as tame as a pair of moccasins and as wild and wacky as Alexander ...