Women earned 81% of men's earnings in 2024, down from 83% in 2023 & 84% in 2022.

[amydiehl@mstdn.social]

Women earned 81% of men's earnings in 2024, down from 83% in 2023 & 84% in 2022. The cost of feminine hygiene products has gone up 40% since 2020. The US collected $115M through tariffs on menstrual products containing cotton vs $42M in 2020.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/menstrual-products-tampons-feminine-care-prices-inflation.html

[mason@partychickens.net]

@amydiehl And yet, the DEI that might encourage people to understand and address this is being criminalized.

[misusecase@twit.social]

@amydiehl That pink tax keeps going up.

[npars01@mstdn.social]

@MisuseCase @amydiehl

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajority

The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

ProPublica (www.propublica.org)

The Pink Tax is also a wage suppression scheme.

Kristen Bell & the practice of PinkSourcing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k_m5AlsQqcs

Talking Carts: Understanding The "Pink Tax"

The "Pink Tax" is the gender-based price discrimination that quietly drains women's wallets every day. Author Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman explains how women of color are disproportionately burdened, and gives strategies for fighting the Pink Tax.

Consumer Reports Video (www.consumerreports.org)

Pink Tax: What Does Price Discrimination Cost Women?

Now is a good time to look at the 'pink tax,' gender price discrimination banned in several states, and related issues surrounding the 'period tax.'

Kiplinger (www.kiplinger.com)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1424043/us-states-sales-tax-on-period-products/

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(chatelaine.com)

Keeping subpar wage levels & an underpaid female labor force was a decades long effort by Koch Network.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/ratified/

The Equal Rights Amendment, Explained

Thirty-eight states have finally ratified the ERA, but whether its protections for women’s rights are actually added to the Constitution remains an open question.

Brennan Center for Justice (www.brennancenter.org)

The Same Groups That Helped Overturn Roe and Attack Abortion Pills Are Also Lobbying Against the ERA

Anti-abortion groups are fighting to overturn Roe v. Wade, attack medication abortion pills, and stop the Equal Rights Amendment.

Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@amydiehl "Trump is protecting women" mfs when they see this

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

@amydiehl

To those who grew up in the last 50 yrs or so:

For tens of thousands of years, women did not wear plastic disposable products.

There are plenty of alternatives. Some people like menstrual cups, but I still prefer cloth pads.

These are easy to care for and they last a long, long time. I've had some for a decade. Just don't put them in the dryer, and they'll be fine.

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[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@amydiehl Canada did away with the tampon tax a decade ago. Hopefully you folk catch up.

[spiegelmama@infosec.exchange]

@MissGayle Could you reserve your snark for enemies? You could have mentioned cloth pads - also my favorite! - without being condescending. There's also cotton involved, so the industrial price trends will still affect prices for women who use cloth.

Also, the main headline is that pay parity between genders has already eroded in the first year of trump 2. That's sobering. We've got to get this ship righted. And we won't do so by arguing about every small thing while big things slip by. Alright, team?

@amydiehl

[missgayle@urbanists.social]

@spiegelmama @amydiehl

Better?