At first I was all like OFFS, but then I was like, actually, no surprises here.

At first I was all like OFFS, but then I was like, actually, no surprises here. Lots of ways to cut off access to opportunities and just plain living in cultures and systems that don't pay attention and change.

https://www.wired.com/story/nyc-public-transportation-pink-tax-gender-gap/
https://www.wired.com/story/nyc-public-transportation-pink-tax-gender-gap/

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  1. There's some question as to whether "pink tax" is a meaningful phrase here. Taxes are levied by the government. If government required women to take a more expensive transportation, that would be a pink tax.

    On a related note, don't New York subways have women-only coupes like Oslo has?

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  2. That's a good question. I don't remember seeing any, but it's been a while since I was there.

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  3. Yeah, there were definitely multiple occasions where I felt obliged to blow a large wad of cash on a cab rather than risk the subway by myself.

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  4. Although I suppose if there were women-only coupes in American subways, we would have seen legislation about how to keep trans people out.

    (As a European I was on the verge of adding a smiley there, but then realized that to Americans this is deadly serious, maybe literally so.)

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