{"id":1901,"date":"2016-05-11T07:40:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:40:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:40:20","slug":"why-should-women-pay-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1901","title":{"rendered":"Why Should Women Pay More?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 \u00a0This article points out a very good point. \u00a0With all the attention regarding gender neutral bathrooms and the elimination of “girls” and “boys” toys at Target, \u00a0 why are there still “womens” and “mens” sections being highlighted and in fact even being expanded in stores? \u00a0 And even more importantly, why do women pay more for basically the same item? \u00a0 I mean seriously, more for Dulcolax?<\/p>\n

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\u201cDo you think the so-called “pink tax” is fair?\u201d<\/em><\/h4>\n

Recently,\u00a0The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs<\/a> (DCA)\u00a0compared nearly 800 products on the market. The study looked at the prices of products marketed towards women and those that were neutral or marketed towards men. They found that, on average, similar products cost 7% more for women.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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1. How Are These Different?<\/em><\/h2>\n
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While the DCA’s findings are maddening on their own, a simple search through your local Target will likely show you the same. Like these bike helmets, the shark helmet for boys retails for $14.99 at Target, while the unicorn helmet for girls goes for $27.99.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2. Gender Pricing<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Take these two Radio Flyer scooters sold at Target. Why is the red one, the gender neutral or male version, sold for\u00a0$24.99 when the pink one is being sold for\u00a0$49.99?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3. You Must Pay More<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Products that have similar, if not identical, ingredients are sold for higher prices when they’re marketed towards females. And while some prices are adjusted once this is brought to the store’s attention, others are not.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4. The Poop Tax?<\/em><\/h2>\n
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I mean, how insane is it that it costs men less to soften their stool? Just because the box is pink, a woman has to pay more for it?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5. Everybody Needs to Shave<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Men and women both need to shave. Maybe even more so for men, as they shave their face more regularly than say, a 30-year-old writer who can’t bring herself to shave her legs more than once a week. And yet, here we are.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6. REALLY?<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Yes, even adult diapers. These two examples are currently on sale at Rite Aid<\/a>. 52 male adult diapers are sold for $11.99, while 39 female ones are sold for the same price.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7. They Are Equal<\/em><\/h2>\n
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At this point, you might be thinking, “But women’s products have better ingredients or their packaging costs more.” NOPE. Not the case<\/a>. These products are more often than not made with the exact same active ingredients.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8. Not Saving Shaving<\/em><\/h2>\n
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They are identical products with similar active ingredients, so why the tax? Companies feel like they can charge more because women are conditioned to buy them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9. Nothing Stopping Them<\/em><\/h2>\n
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While many states have laws prohibiting gender-based pricing, they only pertain to services and not retail products. Right now, there is not a single law<\/a> in place that prohibits a merchant from selling the same exact product for different prices based on the gender of the person buying it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10. On Top of the Wage Gap<\/em><\/h2>\n
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If you combine the pink tax with the wage gap, women are losing more money than men throughout their entire lives. A study done in 1995<\/a>estimated that women pay, on average,\u00a0$1351 more for the same products than men. That’s over $100,000 lost in a lifetime.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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11. Different Expectations<\/em><\/h2>\n
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It can also go deeper than just toiletries. Women are hit especially hard in the clothing department. Hannah Sorensen, a financial associate with Thrivent Financial said<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0\u201cA man could wear the same black suit several days in a row and no one would notice, a woman couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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12. The Price of Being Female<\/em><\/h2>\n
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And when gender-based marketing starts before we’re even born, it’s often engrained into us that women have to pay more for some reason. Unfortunately, for now, that’s just the\u00a0price of being female.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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13. The Reason?<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Frankly, the reason products for women cost more is because women will buy it. However, now that this is being brought to the attention of major chains, hopefully they will do the right thing. The goal is that, with more legislation being passed, the pink tax will be a thing of the past.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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14. Shop Male<\/em><\/h2>\n
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For now, shopping male is the only real change you can make to your bank account. \u201cPrice conscious female shoppers may not know that, for discounts, they need look<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0This article points out a very good point. \u00a0With all the attention regarding gender neutral bathrooms and the elimination of “girls” and “boys” toys at Target, \u00a0 why are there still “womens” and “mens” sections being highlighted and in fact even being expanded in stores? \u00a0 And even more importantly, why do women pay Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}