Posted on 12/23/2015 4:04:03 AM PST by Zakeet
Women are paying thousands of dollars more over the course of their lives than men to purchase similar products, according to a study of the gender pricing of goods in New York City, which revealed widespread gender-based pricing disparities.
Comparing nearly 800 products with clear male and female versions from more than 90 brands sold in store and online, NYC's Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) which carried out the study into gender pricing, found that the women's version of products cost more than men's.
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The DCA found that, on average and across five industries, women's products cost 7 percent more than similar products for men. Specifically:
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So women are actually Ferengi?
If your wife is frequently languid, you should have married a farm girl. I’m usually the one letting hubby know he’s got to stop working and get cleaned up because we have to be somewhere.
When I talk about this boyfriend, I LITERALLY mean a minutes notice. He would drop by unannounced. Say hey, “My buddy’s have some people over tonight. Wanna go?” I’d say, “Sure, grab a beverage and have a seat while I get ready.” Then he’d bitch about sitting around for 20 minutes. If I just threw something on with no makeup, he’d say “Is that what you’re gong to wear!?” It didn’t last long. He was an ass about many things.
Women pay more for toys and for children’s clothing? What? Okay, does the clerk jack up the price as the woman approaches the register?
This so stupid!
Honey, is that you?
We need different shoes to match different outfits. And we keep capitalism humming with our purchases, don’t forget.
I just keep quit and smile.
Yes, but you want them to be beautiful, don’t you?
Yep!
Boo hoo. And men are kept from getting jobs and from being accepted into college. Men don’t get “minority preferences” and set-asides. So STFU.
My wife can *always* get the best price. The problem is that she all too frequently gets the best price on superfluous stuff we don’t need.
On average women live longer too.
I only have 5
12 ga shotgun, 30.06 rifle, .40 cal auto pistol, .22 target pistol, .22 rifle
I only have 2 hands so I don't stock up on guns. However, I don't really have "enough" ammo for all.
Another couple factors would be the man will wear out that $11 pair of jeans in much less time than the woman will wear out the $20 pair. But then without the woman forcing the issue, he will continue to wear the worn out jeans until they are publicly indecent, thus getting more for his buck than the woman.
Not going to flame you, but here is the crux of the matter. For a man, clothing is practical, but, for a woman, much of her wardrobe is also ornamental.
If I did not regularly cull his wardrobe my husband would still be wearing fades, out-dated 30-year-old shirts. Because he is practical. Periodically — not as often as I would like, but I have to compromise — I convince him that he needs some new clothing, and I buy the items. Not complaining, as I have disdain for men who are too fastidious with their clothing choices.
We women, on the other hand, like to update our wardrobes periodically. I do not like the act of shopping, but I do like having something new and fashionable to wear for an occasion. And, while my husband rolls his eyes about my need for fashion changes, he appreciates the fact that I take my time to look nice when we go out — make-up, matching clothing, jewelry, etc. — as opposed to wearing the sweat pants and old tennis shoes that I wear around the house.
The handbags you refer to are practical on one level to hold various items, but they are mainly decorative, so a woman does not “need” a new handbag except to complete the look she is going for.
As for shoes, when a man is dressed up his shoes are likely to be black or brown, and there are not too many choices of heel heights. They are a practical consideration for the man. For a woman, the shoes, like the bag, are part of the whole outfit.
Honey, is that you? :-)
A lady comic (name escapes me) had a joke that went something like “I spend more than $500 a year on hosiery and I work with guys who wear the same sox they had in high school.”
Yep, pretty much.
“How many firearms does a man really need?”
That depends on how many I can fit in my gun cabinet. You can only wear one pair of shoes at a time, but I can shoot ten guns in a day easy. My guns have major resale value. Shoes do not. My guns may be the difference between staying alive and dying. That’s not true of any pair of shoes. My guns are constitutionally protected. Shoes don’t even merit constitutional notice.
I’m just saying. . .
Amen!
:)
My wife doesn’t complain about the gun’s, hunting and fishing gear or the other things I feel I absolutely have to have. She can do anything she wants to!
Quit buying make-up? Uh-huh. But how many men here go on and on about the beauty of the bimbos on Fox News and other bimbos who are over-painted?
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