Do women wear nice shoes to please men? HELL NO, they do it for OTHER WOMEN! Most men don't give a crap what women have on their feet. The pressure among females to OUTDO EACH OTHER is a natural phenomenon early as the hills. It's a COMPETITION that men have NOTHING to do with.
You contradict yourself. Women are competing for the the attention of the opposite sex—but then focus on shoes in order to impress other women?
In the workplace, women have to meet the expectations for their jobs, and in something like television, there is a greater focus on their looks than there is on the looks of their male colleagues.