This is an article about the pink tax, the hidden costs of being a woman in how goods and services marketed toward women are priced.

In 2022, the Pew Research Center's analysis of median hourly earnings of both full and part-time workers found that women earned an average of 82% of what men earned — a figure that's barely inched ...

March is a time when tax season, and tax deadlines, are understandably on many people’s minds. But the month of March is also when some people celebrate equity and women’s achievements. For example, ...

3. Same goes for face masks — sorry: Pink masks cost 30% more than blue ones. from pointlesslygendered The “regular PainMaster unit” is $15.00 less than this. At least they’re honest about it costing ...

Have you compared the price between a man and a woman’s razor lately? You might want to because typically there’s a difference. It’s what people are calling a pink tax—when women are charged more for ...

I usually reach for personal care products at my local drugstore that are “for women.” For one week, I used men’s body wash, deodorant, and razors to find out if they were really all that different ...

Pads and tampons are pricey, with the average woman spending about $18,000 on period-related products in her lifetime, according to a 2015 HuffPost report. The cost of pantyliners, pain pills and ...

“OK, we'll buy nail polish and makeup and jewelry and hair clips. And—you know, and then even for the stuff that both genders are buying, we still pay more. And then, when we actually ask why, the ...

CVS will reduce prices on its store-branded menstrual products nationwide and pay the sales taxes on those products in a dozen states. The video above is ABC7's 24/7 livestream. Starting Thursday, CVS ...

The “pink tax” originally referred to state sales tax applied to feminine hygiene products. The term may also be used to refer to the practice of charging more for products marketed to women. Some ...