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• That’s the question I posed to readers of women and business. The query was inspired, an employee of outsourcing company, who as sent home without pay from a gig as a receptionist office when she refused to wear shoes with a “2-inch to 4-inch heel .”
• Portico has since changed its policy to allow for flat shoes, but the incident has sparked heated conversation about the legality of regulating what female employees can and can't wear—as well as a broader debate about the way women's appearances play into how they're evaluated at work.