The author of the Outside Magazine article completely ignored the findings of the study that she linked to.
The researcher mentioned the documented higher incidence of certain injuries in women over men.
He then set out to determine if barefoot running could lessen these injuries.
The results confirmed that barefoot running had the potential to decrease those types of injuries in women.
How that author became a writer for a magazine I can't understand, her basic premise that she sets out to disprove has absolutely nothing to do with the study she attributes it to.
Here is the researcher's conclusion:
Conclusions: Barefoot running resulted in lower HADD, HIR, and CLPD when compared to being shod at both IC and 10% of stance, where the body’s kinetic energy is absorbed by the lower limb. Because excessive HADD, HIR, and CLPD have been associated with knee injuries in female runners, barefoot running could have potential for injury prevention or treatment in this cohort.