Why are there more barefooted women than men in America?

Answer 1

Because they like it more...? Fashion?

Answer 2

On the level of personal preference, it seems reasonable to suggest that so many more women than men wear shoes that are so uncomfortable for the sake of fashion (the only man I can think of who springs to mind is fictional - Hercule Poirot) that there are many more females than males who are thrilled to take every opportunity to get and keep their shoes off.

Culturally, in addition to reasons of what is and isn't considered attractive, there are reasons of status. Maybe the most elaborate shoes in history were the ones worn by kings and noblemen from around 1500-1700, with platform heels to give them the masculine advantage of greater height and very long pointed toes to imply abundant endowment elsewhere.

Even today, what would be considered ideal foot size is radically different for the sexes. Tiny, dainty, delicate feet are the female ideal, a carryover all the way back to Chinese times when girls and women bound their feet to make them insanely small and deformed. Big feet in big shoes are a sign of masculinity, authority, power, virility, etc.

It might be no accident that so much footwear-related violence in recent times has been over those expensive and enormous basketball shoes that make size 9 feet look to be about size 14 - major status symbols.