A 1994 report from the State of California found they pay an annual "gender tax" of $1,351 for the same services rendered to men.
Women have been basically paying a gender tax for generations.
In 1994, the State of California looked into the issue of gender-based pricing of services and calculated that women paid an annual "gender tax" of about $1,351 for the same services as men.
Some experts, notably Edward McCaffery, the author of a pioneering analysis of gender bias,"Taxing Women," advocate a shift to individual rather than family-based taxation, a shift that many European countries have already made.
Socio-demographic variables available included: respondent's gender, pre-tax household income (twelve categories), respondent's highest level of education (four categories from did not graduate from high school to college or university degree) and household location within the City (as defined by the household's municipality prior to amalgamation).
In exchange for cheap foreign imports, we get exploitation at every link in the global corporate chain: bribery in Mexico; dead factory workers in Bangladesh; workers on Medicaid across America; illegal dumping of hazardous materials; real estate trusts that dodge taxes; gender discrimination lawsuits; empty Main Streets.
And, in a blow for gender equality, a Toupee Tax.
Gender politics, the Tobin tax, zero waste, firearms, corporate governance and the digital divide were just some of the plethora of subjects up for discussion.
Sustainability professionals and other senior business functions therefore need to understand issues of governance, tax, pay, gender, and diversity, even if they are not directly responsible for them.
Now we can add their head coach to the fold, Barry Hinson, who managed to bring the United States tax code, gender issues and, yes, dogs into his worthy post-game rant.
Sankara outlawed tribute payments and obligatory labour to village chiefs, abolished rural poll taxes, promoted gender equality in a very male-dominated society (including outlawing female circumcision and polygamy), instituted a massive immunisation programme, built railways and kick-started public housing construction.
