Razors, Insurance, Pillows: the Irritating 'Women's Tax' Still Exists

The light red manage on your blade is charging females extra. So is the hair on your guide, your pharmacy cream, and the fact that you stay more time, mathematically, than the men around you. The "women's tax" still prevails and it's still surprisingly annoying, gratingly unjust, and, in most places, completely legal.

That "women's tax" the higher prices females pay for all types of products and solutions was completely confirmed today with a video assemble by HLN's Daily Share:

That's right: razor blades are more expensive, as are similar face creams, hairstyles, dry-cleaning on similar tops and even long-term care insurance policy, even though Obamacare officially prohibited gender-based costs elegance in insurance policy. (Insurance companies say females are billed more because, mathematically, they stay more time, and because they use health solutions more. We've known for a lengthy, lengthy time about gender-based costs differences, although Florida is, so far, the only country that's really made it unlawful. California's Division of Customer matters prohibited it in 1996, after a study of hairstyles and washing laundry solutions discovered that females were paying considerably more. As Google points out, New you are able to City has rules against the exercise, as does Florida's Miami-Dade Nation. The outcry against New You are able to City's police was fierce: please read this pleasantly old 1998 Times tale, where a associate from a dry washing business team warrants the price differences in shirt-cleaning: ''There are tops that have pellets and tops that have extras and tops that have ribbons and all types of very interesting and innovative concepts to make Mrs. Customer or Skip Customer more wonderful but are difficult to clean and media."

In 2010, Customer Reviews discovered the differences were still true for many common pharmacy items suggesting that females neglect gendered packaging" and achieve for the less expensive option. That's fine for a blade, but it's a little more difficult when it comes to something wish insurance policy, or loans and insurance policy costs.