Women pay more than men for most things, from health insurance (with maternity care not included) to dry cleaning and mortgages. Personal maintenance items such as shampoos, razors, and deodorants also cost more for women, with the only real differences between products for men and women being look and smell.
This is called gender pricing, and it has led to women in California spending $1,351 more than men on goods and services every year. When applied to the entire country, this leads to women paying $151 billion more than men each year.
There is no federal law banning gender pricing. This is especially unfair because of the gender wage gap that favors men. California banned gender pricing in 1996, but it's vague and thus, easy to avoid.
A new health care law signed by Obama in 2010 will ban gender pricing starting in 2014, but the Supreme Court may strike it down.
Please tell the United States to ban gender pricing. This is legal discrimination and it needs to stop.
Please ban gender pricing. Gender pricing leads to women paying $151 billion a year more than men for goods and services from health insurance to shampoo.
This is legal discrimination and it needs to stop. It is even more unfair because of the gender wage gap that favors men.
