Thursday, July 7, 2016

Forbes: "Pink Tax" Accusations Are Like Bikini's -- Short On Substance

by SIMON CONSTABLE

Some readers aren’t going to like this, but the so-called pink tax reflects economics not gender bias.
Sorry, but sometimes the truth is hard.
The idea of a pink tax is that products aimed at women are priced higher than similar ones aimed at men. The reaction by some has been a series of screeds attacking corporate America as the home of a bunch of evil misogynists.
Their arguments are often like skimpy clothing: Short on substance. Read more here.
Photo by Tobias ToMar Maier, 
CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, 
via Wikimedia Commons

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