‘Female’ versions of everyday products are more expensive – hardly surprising in a society that makes women feel we need to look good in order to gain respectLooking for a no-effort way to save a lot of money? Be born male. An investigation by the Times has just confirmed what many of us probably already suspected: it’s expensive to be a woman. After analysing hundreds of products on the British high street,the Times found that women are charged, on average, or 37% more than men for equivalent items. This echoes a recent study in New York that also found women were charged more for female” versions of the same product (in this instance it was a 7% surcharge).
How on soil are companies getting absent with this? Explaining its own price discrepancies to the Times,Tesco said: “A number of products for females fill additional design and performance features.” Sorry, I’m not buying that. Dyeing something pink doesn’t really count as an “additional design feature. The more accurate acknowledge is that they’ve been getting absent with it because they can.
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Source: theguardian.com