{"id":346298,"date":"2025-09-15T18:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=346298"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:43:33","slug":"pink-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pink-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rising awareness <\/span><b>highlights Pink Tax<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in India, where women often pay more for similar products and <\/span><b>services like razors, shampoos, and haircuts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><b>silently eroding household savings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and demanding fair pricing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>About Pink Tax<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pink Tax is <\/span><b>not a government levy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> but a <\/span><b>gender-based pricing phenomenon<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> where <\/span><b>women\u2019s products or services cost more than men\u2019s equivalents<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> despite similar quality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common examples include <\/span><b>personal care items, toys, clothing, dry-cleaning, and salon services.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The term originated in <\/span><b>California in 1994; global studies reveal women pay 7\u201313% more<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In India, awareness is low, with 67% never having heard of Pink Tax (IFSA research). The 2018 GST exemption on sanitary napkins was a landmark move against such disparity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>India\u2019s Case<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Women\u2019s shampoos, razors, and haircuts are often priced higher; 2018 GST relief on sanitary products marked progress.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Economic Impact<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: With women earning less on average, Pink Tax deepens inequality and strains family savings.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Legal &amp; Awareness<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: No specific anti\u2013Pink Tax law exists, but NCDRC mandates fair pricing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Rising awareness highlights Pink Tax in India, where women often pay more for similar products and services like razors, shampoos, and haircuts, silently eroding household savings and demanding fair pricing. About Pink Tax Pink Tax is not a government levy but a gender-based pricing phenomenon where women\u2019s products or services cost more than men\u2019s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pink-tax\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pink Tax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-346298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}