It turns out the “pink tax” is also screwing over women at the dry cleaners.
In a segment on CBS This Morning, reporters went undercover to see if women were charged more than men. One female producer and one male producer dropped off nearly identical items and asked for the same service.
What they found is that the female producer was charged more. “She was charged $7.50 while her male counterpart just $2.85″
And then imagine this trickles down to everything.
I have to consider who I’m hiring for work around the house- do I want potlights installed in the kitchen? Should I have my grandfather come over to talk to the contractor in order to get an honest quote out of him, or should I risk getting charged double for the same project? Do I really need a new engine in my car or are you just trying to get me to overspend? I think people don’t realize how exhausting it is trying to figure out if you’re getting ripped off or not all the time.
I think the most Slytheriny Slytherin there ever was was Slughorn. He was so freaking ambitious, but he wasn’t a particularly great wizard himself. So he cultivated a little following of great wizards to do all the work for him. He was never evil or mean or cruel like a dark wizard though. He got all this sway in powerful places because he was nice to, encouraged, and manipulated powerful wizards when they were young. And then he literally never had to do anything for the rest of his life. All these great wizards just gave him free stuff and listened to his opinions on politics and business because he had been their mentor. If anyone was being a Slytherin the right way, it was this guy.
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