Women's Footwear in America

Elinor Burkett dares to say what many women are thinking.

 What Makes a Women? By ELINOR BURKETT JUNE 6, 2015.

Bruce Jenner told Ms. Sawyer that what he looked forward to most in his transition was the chance to wear nail polish, not for a furtive, fugitive instant, but until it chips off. I want that for Bruce, now Caitlyn, too. But I also want her to remember: Nail polish does not a woman make. – Elinor Burkett

Press Conference on GENDA, The Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act.

Women’s Liberation March, August 26th 1970. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Illustration depicts a woman getting a manicure from a man,1910.

In the era of the suffragette, 1910. Courtesy Library of Congress.