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Hidden Tax ——Analysis of Premium Level for Sanitary Napkins and Adult Diapers
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Abstract
As the social attention on women’s dilemma, some unfair regulations have raised a heated discussion, and the ‘pink tax’ which is a hidden tax levied on homogeneous products consumed by women, and most of those products have the same quality and raw material, but higher prices when it is marketed as female-targeted goods. In this paper, unlike the previous researches focusing on pink tax in united industry, it shows the price disparities also exist on conventional women commodity, and mainly investigate the similarity and difference of sanitary napkins and adult diapers. By analyzing the costs of raw material, comprehensive applications and market prices of both kinds of products, calculating and comparing the net profit margins of the two industries, the results confirm the existence of price disparity on these two goods under similar costs, but because of the lack of database and specific cases, further researches are necessary for verification. This work may widen people’s horizon on pink tax, which is not limited on the comparison of opposite genders’ products, but the price bias on feminine goods, and it can promote Economics gender equality.
Keywords
pink tax, sanitary napkins and adult diapers, gender equality of economics
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Management Research and Economic Development
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-81-2
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-82-9
- Published Date
- 13 September 2023
- Series
- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
- ISSN (Print)
- 2754-1169
- ISSN (Online)
- 2754-1177
- DOI
- 10.54254/2754-1169/19/20230122
- Copyright
- 13 September 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited