So having taken up the women's cause, the shoe companies remain reticent about celebrating women for who they are.
From small beginnings, this idea has grown to become a widely recognised way of celebrating women around the world.
The film explains a new Jewish ritual designed to celebrate women on their 60th birthday.
Labor Day celebrates the nation's working men and women.
The sports personality awards present a brilliant opportunity to celebrate our nation's elite sportsmen and women.
"I always wanted to do a book that would celebrate women," Afanador told me recently.
Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music.
"And I really wanted to celebrate other women having babies."
The holiday did not celebrate individual women, but an idealized standard of motherhood.
"We're doing this in a way that celebrates, doesn't denigrate, women," he says.