Does it cost more to be a woman? (Survey says... Yes!)

[Panich52]

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A survey found that women pay an extra $1,300 a month compared to men, due to a gender discriminatory pricing.

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[marym625]

1. Absolutely!

Even when I was in high school and worked at a dry cleaners, I knew this. Women's slacks, blouses and suits were more than a man's. A skirt was even more than slacks. But I guarantee, they weren't any more work

[Travis_0004]

2. My experience is a bit different

We had 2 prices. Shirts that could be machine pressed, and shirts that could not.

Most mens shirts could be machine pressed at a cheaper rate, most womens shirts could not.

Mens shirts are very uniform in style, and its easy to design a machine that will accommodate most. Womens shirts have much more variety, and trends change much faster, so there is no machine to quickly press most womens shirts, so it was done by hand, which is more expensive to do.

We never priced shirts mens vs womens. Our pricing was machine pressed, or hand pressed. Most mens shirts were machine pressed, most womens shirts were hand pressed. If a man had a tux shirt, or was very large, say 3x and above, we did it by hand and charged the higher rate.