What is the Pink Tax?
Is the Pink Tax an official tax?
No.
What is a tariff?
A tax that has to be paid on certain imports or exports.
Women pay more than men for products ___% of the time.
Name 1 service the Pink Tax is used on.
Retail/Grocery stores
What gender does the Pink Tax discriminate against?
Females.
What is price discrimination?
It's when companies set different prices for different sets of people.
Women spend ___ % more on clothing than men spend.
8%
Name 1 product the Pink Tax is used on.
Toys
Is it an easy thing to see when you are shopping?
Not usually.
What is the wage gap?
It's an unfair difference between the average salary that 2 sections of a population are paid.
Women spend ___ % more on personal hygiene items than men spend.
13%
Name 1 product the Pink Tax is used on.
Clothes
Is it only used for adults' products/services or is it used for kids' products/services too?
It's used on products/services for kids and adults.
What is product differentiation?
It's when sellers make a product (or service) more attractive to a particular consumer, for example by changing the packaging and altering the color of a product.
On average, "girl" toys are ___ % more expensive than "boy" toys.
7
Name 1 service the Pink Tax is used on.
Hair salons
What exactly is the Pink Tax?
The extra amount of money women pay for products and services.
What is price fixing?
It's when stores who charge more on goods for women can't be competed with stores who have the same prices for both genders.
Women get paid ___% less than men do for the same job.
20%
Name 1 service or good the Pink Tax is used on.
Hygiene products.