Okay Ladies.....

[Clueless Morgan]

Clearly the more logical solution to this imbalance would be to make men have to wear heels aswell

Obviously you weren't alive or too young to remember the 70ies. Plateau soles were all the rage. Well, not really high heels, but as close as male footwear ever came.

Not true, exactly.  Men used to wear heeled shoes about 500 years ago or so:

http://www.headoverheelshistory.com/1600.html

Later in the century, shoes and stockings became very important as the focus shifted to the lower body. Men wanted to wear flattering fanciful hose and shoes to accentuate their shapely legs.

Louis XIV also had a thing for high heels with red soles and heels. It must have been tough to be short in stature but lofty in power so I guess he thought he would even it up a bit.  Of course, what the king does, everyone else copies, so everyone who was anyone wore high heels with red soles and heels.  After all, what would be more proper to wear with Petticoat breeches, than high-heeled shoes?  Boots went out of style in favor of these new elegant heels now elaborately decorated with ribbons, rosettes or buckles.

Men's fashion today is still very much tied to the fashion of a guy named Beau Brummell who is the person we can pinpoint as the one who made trousers and jackets (the "Mr. Darcy" look, similar to what we think of today as a suit) popular in around 1800-1810.

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Before him (Brummell) men's fashion was the Louis XVI/GeorgeIII look - knee-length bloomers and tights and heeled shoes (though not necessarily high-heeled like we think of today)

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Also:




For as much pain and physical damage as they can do, you can't deny that heels are HOT.