Women should no longer be required to pay more for items that are geared towards their gender.
Examples include:
Higher cost and smaller sizes of products like women’s razors, shampoo and deodorant, relative to similar personal hygiene products designed for men.
Menstrual products
Higher prices of toys or equipment marketed to girls, like pink bikes, scooters and helmets, relative to identical red or blue bikes, scooters and helmets.
The only beneficiaries are the companies that sell these items. If we’re truly continuing to move forward in treating women equally and fairly, there shouldn’t be continued discrimination at the cash register.
This appears to be an issue between a company who sells products and the buyer of those products. Unless a government entity is adding additional charges to the product at the register, I cannot see why this is being called a “tax”.
If said condition is at the manufactering/distribution level, then one should probably take it up with the company or purchase products from a competing company. If they are all doing it, then one might investigate illegal monopolistic practices, collusion, and unfair price controls.
One thing is certain though…we dont need more government regulation, administration, and overhead at this point…we need less of it. We are trying to chop this tree down to a shrub, not grow extra branches on it right?
Yes, however, there is a bill (link below) before Congress right now because it involves the FTC which is an independent agency of the US government. This is also a figurative tax, not one that the government receives directly on feminine geared products. However, it could be argued that they do ultimately collect on it when companies file their taxes each year.
So, while I agree with you for wanting less government, I don’t believe that letting this be mandated by companies themselves, as they have no incentive to play fair game, without some government involvement.
Consumers always have the choice not to buy, and it is the law of supply and demand that these prices are responding to. Buy a girl a blue bike, buy generic menstrual products, and buy regular razors. They all work!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, but I’m going to disagree with you there because that mindset not only perpetuates continued discrimination it limits a consumer’s choice. It’s not about generic versus name brand or supply and demand, the fact that it’s happening at all goes against fair trade practices. I believe the last time the people of this country got mad enough over ridiculous taxes and prices a lot of tea ended up in a harbor.
