Here's a summary of the top categories in which women typically pay more than men, plus some ways to fight back.
The organization found that clothes, children's toys, and home care goods were more expensive, too. Across all products, women pay 7 percent more on average. This pricing disparity results in women paying $1,351 more every year for the same products as men.
Pink Tax Statistics
There has been a lot of research on the pink tax that found overall, women were paying more than men 42% of the time. How much more? About $1,300 more a year in extra costs. That's $1,300 that can't go into a women's retirement fund.
Adult women pay on average eight percent more for their clothes than men do, according to From Cradle to Cane: The Cost of Being a Female Consumer.
One common justification for charging women more than men for the very same products is that companies pay a higher tariff on women's clothing. ... A 2016 study from Texas A&M found that tariffs on women's clothing can be as much as six times higher than tariffs on comparable men's clothing.
Women pay more than men for personal care partly because we use products and services that most men don't, such as makeup and body wax. But even for comparable products that both men and women use, women often pay more because of the pink tax, or gendered pricing.
Women are generally considered to be paid less than men. There are two distinct numbers regarding the pay gap: non-adjusted versus adjusted pay gap. ... In the United States, for example, the non-adjusted average female's annual salary is 79% of the average male salary, compared to 95% for the adjusted average salary.
How To Avoid Paying More
The economic impact of the pink tax is that women have less purchasing power, especially paired with the gender-based pay gap. The wage gap already puts women at a disadvantage when it comes to purchasing power.
From the results from our research, unfortunately the Pink Tax still exist. Women Pay +50% more on Hygiene Products than Men. Women are paying a “pink tax” on most personal hygiene products. When broken down to price per gram of product, products marketed to women are priced higher than those marketed to men.
1. Women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man earns. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, in 2020, women's annual earnings were 82.3% of men's, and the gap is even wider for many women of color.
Overall, women who were full-time, year-round employees made 82.3 cents for every dollar men made in 2019, based on median earning data from the Census Current Population Survey. That means women are paid 17.7% less than men, earning $10,157 less than men.
According to the DCA and the visualization, there are only a few products that men pay more for. ... For both men and women, adult clothing tends to be the most expensive consumer product category.
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