Petition ensures 'heels' are now the woman's choice

If you’re a nurse, a surgeon, a cabin steward... you wear a uniform on the job and you expect to wear a uniform, writes Terry Prone

So this out-of-work actor goes temping, as actors do when they’re “resting” between jobs. They wait tables. They bar tend. They temp as secretaries and receptionists. All the time dreaming of the breakthrough role that will make them a household name.

This particular young actor is sent to work as a receptionist in Britain by a temp agency. She arrives at the offices of a major accountancy partnership, only to be taken aside and advised that receptionists in that company are expected to wear heels. She wouldn’t have known this, so they’ll be happy if she runs out to buy a pair.