User:Suzette1224/KuToo movement

Origins and Development
Ishikawa found shoes of this type to be inconvenient and uncomfortable at work, and complained on Twitter on January 24, 2019 about wearing them. Yumi Ishikawa has over 150,000 signatures on a petition for women not having to wear high heels in the workplace. The government must now look into this issue due to the petition going past the threshold of 100,000 signatures. However, despite many people supporting Yumi Ishikawa, the parliamentary committee still believes women should be dressed “reasonably” to work. However, the parliamentary committee does not endorse companies that are extreme on the dress code. Therefore, this becomes an issue and the beginning of the #KuToo movement with men not having expectations of how they should dress in comparison to women.

Gender Discrimination
After Yumi Ishikawa's tweet about complaining having to wear high heels; her tweet got more publicly from international countries rather than in Japan were the issue is at hand. Japan is seeing the #KuToo movement as more of a health concern rather than seeing it as discrimination between gender in comparison where many countries are looking at the #KuToo movement in that way.

Health Concerns
Women are comparing to high heels as to foot binding because many women are working long hours with their feet in a particular position that is uncomfortable for their feet. Many women also complain that it is interfering with work due to the pain in their feet, such as having blisters and bunions.