Hey, I never had clipless trouble either, but if other women are and are falling a lot, it concerns me because NOBODY needs to be hitting the pavement- it hurts. And it'll head trip you. And some women are just stronger than others and we can just yank the foot out. But god knows we all get dissed enough in bike shops, and when Adam told me this I thought it was important to pass on. Nobody should be made to feel stupid when it's just a mechanical issue. Even men have trouble with clipless pedals. Some people just don't take to them easily.
Hibiscus, a lot of LBS guys don't know this. I'm blessed with an absolute cycling/ engineering genius around the corner- and there's another shop this cool across town. But the guys who work for Adam wouldn't know this either. I've been in a lot of shops where the staff were really nice guys, but don't know as much as they think. And the whole issue of stuff that works for women is a big and old one, largly ignored by even the nicest of hot six foot tall bike raceing guys. Why would this occur to them?
And once you know your shorter foot may be the problem, you can still keep the LOOKs and work on it. I bet you can strengthen something and make it happen.
And then there's the whole cleat adjustment thing.

Lizzy