Nichevo wrote:
> Canada Lawmaker Wants to Stop Gender-Based Pricing
> Tue March 15, 2005 4:56 PM GMT-05:00
> 
> TORONTO (Reuters) - Most women, accustomed to paying more than men for
> goods and services like clothes and hair cuts, simply shrug it off as
> part of life, but an Ontario legislator hopes to end all that.
> 
> Lorenzo Berardinetti wants to brand so-called gender-based pricing a
> human rights violation and he has introduced a bill in the Ontario
> legislature to make the practice illegal.
> 
> Berardinetti said on Tuesday he was shocked when he and his wife took
> clothes to a dry cleaners and she ended up paying more for similar
> items.
> 
> "I get charged one price and she gets charged another price for
> virtually the same material," he said.
> 
> Berardinetti said that opened his eyes to an experience women have long
> learned to deal with, namely higher prices for clothes, shoes, hair
> cuts and other services.
> 
This just isn'y true - at least not in UK.

Years ago I used to bemoan the fact that, as a 
man, I was expected to wear a suit that would 
cost may be £100 (late seventies prices) while a 
female could buy a dress for as littel as £15-25.

A plain bias in favour of females again.
But, it is the case that a man's suit is far 
more comnplex to make; requires mor material 
which itself will be more expensive per area and 
  the cut MUST be right or it look good. On the 
other hand, besides women's *ppowr dresses* 
which re1quire similar attention as a man's 
suit, most dresses, skirts etc., can fit adequately.

D.

> 
> "The bill would ... amend the human rights code in Ontario to make
> gender pricing discriminatory and it would also allow for penalties to
> be levied from C$2,000 to C$5,000," he said.
> 
> The bill -- "An Act to Prohibit Price Discrimination on the Basis of
> Gender" -- will be debated in the legislature in April in the second
> phase of a four-stage process toward a bill making its way into law. If
> it passes a final third reading, royal assent then sees it written into
> law.
> 
>
http://www.reuters.ca/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_CA&storyID=7910964
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> With some thing like hairdressers and fashion this is totally
> ridiculous, It probably takes 3 times as long to cut an average womans
> hair than it does mine.
> With fashion, mens stuff doesn't need to be re-designed every 15
> minutes, this lowers production and distribution costs substantially.
> If this law is passed, men are going to pay higher prices to make up
> the shortfall.
> 


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