2020年高考英语外刊时事命题七选五：日本女性请愿反抗职场着装规定Kutoo Kicks Up a Storm About High Heels

Kutoo Kicks Up a Storm About High Heels 日本女性请愿反抗职场着装规定: 我的鞋，我做主！ Is forcing a female employee to wear high heels workplace harassment? This is the question Japan has been struggling with over the past year, led by the activists behind #KuToo, the nation’s anti-high heels movement. ____1____It first emerged as a hashtag in January 2019 after Yumi Ishikawa tweeted about being forced to wear painful high heels at her workplace. Her initial KuToo petition (请愿书) on Change.org has obtained over 31,000 signatures since it was created in February 2019. In a nation where up to 70 percent of women wear heels at least once a week, KuToo quickly rose to become a major social media slogan and rallying cry (战斗口号) for women. ____2____ In fact, the term was enshrined (载入) in Japanese dictionaries after it was chosen as one of the country’s top ten memorable buzzwords by a leading publisher in December 2019. The announcement of KuToo as a buzzword of the year, however, has also brought out critics who