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   When Nicola Thorp showed up at PwC, a finance company in London,   
   late last year, she was wearing flats — what she thought were   
   smart, sensible shoes for her first day on the job as a   
   receptionist.   
      
   But the 27-year-old temp worker was told by PwC that she would   
   have to put on something a little taller. Specifically, footwear   
   with 2- to 4-inch heels.   
      
   Thorp refused, countering she’d have to spend the day on her   
   feet. “I said ‘I just won’t be able to do that in heels’,” Thorp   
   told BBC Radio London in an interview Wednesday. “I said ‘if you   
   can give me a reason as to why wearing flats would impair me to   
   do my job today, then fair enough’, but they couldn’t.”   
      
   When she pointed out that men wouldn’t be expected to do the   
   same work in heels, she says her new colleagues laughed at her   
   and dismissed her from work without pay.   
      
   Portico, the outsourcing company that had hired Thorp for the   
   PwC job, argued she had agreed to a dress code. It later told   
   the BBC that, “with immediate effect all our female colleagues   
   can wear plain flat shoes.” PcW said that such heels were not a   
   part of its rules, the BBC also reported Wednesday.   
      
   Thorp has recently seized the opportunity to petition the United   
   Kingdom government to outlaw mandatory high heels. “Current   
   formal work dress codes are out-dated and sexist,” writes Thorp   
   in her petition to the parliament. As of Thursday morning, the   
   petition was about 7,00 signatures shy of the 100,000 required   
   for the UK parliament to consider the topic for debate.   
      
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